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Grammar : Noun

Spell : dih-sahy-fer

Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈsaɪ fər

Definition of decipherment

Origin : 1520s, from de- + cipher. Perhaps in part a loan-translation from Middle French déchiffrer. Related: Deciphered; deciphering.

noun explanation

Example sentences :

Grotefend, Georg Friedrich, decipherment of wedge writing, 16.
Extract from : « The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria » by Morris Jastrow

Your decipherment of the secret despatch has come too late to do us good,—too late.
Extract from : « The Shadow of the Czar » by John R. Carling

This done, the work of decipherment would take but a few minutes.
Extract from : « The Shadow of the Czar » by John R. Carling

These may afford the key to the decipherment of both Lydian and Etruscan.
Extract from : « Archology and the Bible » by George A. Barton

Of date or postmark there is no vestige, and the decipherment was not easy.
Extract from : « Great Ghost Stories » by Various

From this time forward the work of decipherment went on apace.
Extract from : « A Primer of Assyriology » by Archibald Henry Sayce

The decipherment of the script would at once solve the problem.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 » by Various

Myths, in fact, are the words of a dead language to which a wrong sense has been given by a false method of decipherment.
Extract from : « The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature » by Various

In regard to the history of these monarchies, much light has been obtained from the decipherment of the cuneiform inscriptions.
Extract from : « The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 » by Various

These are of so remarkable a type as to have puzzled every philologist and paleographer who has attempted their decipherment.
Extract from : « The Swastika » by Thomas Wilson

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