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Synonyms for decipherment
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : dih-sahy-fer |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈsaɪ fər |
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Définition of decipherment
Origin :- 1520s, from de- + cipher. Perhaps in part a loan-translation from Middle French déchiffrer. Related: Deciphered; deciphering.
- noun explanation
- 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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