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Symphytism

Symphytism \Sym"phy*tism\, n. [Gr. ? grown together.] Coalescence; a growing into one with another word. [R.]

Some of the phrasal adverbs have assumed the form of single words, by that symphytism which naturally attaches these light elements to each other.
--Earle.

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symphytism

n. coalescence; a growing into one with another word