dilogy
Noun

dilogy

  1. ambiguous#English|Ambiguous or equivocal speech or discourse.
  2. repetition#English|Repetition of a word or phrase.
  3. (countable, nonstandard) A series of two related works.
    • 1885, The Journal of Hellenic studies: Volume 6, page 167 ↗
      why tragedy took the form of a trilogy — not a dilogy, tetralogy, or single drama
    • 1983, Studies in Aeschylus, Reginald Pepys Winnington-Ingram, page 189 ↗
      another school of thought, for which Purphoros is a mirage, a mere doublet of Purkaeus, and there were never more than two linked Prometheus plays -- as it were a dilogy
    • 2012, A New Companion to the Gothic, David Punter, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qaGj75K2Q9oC&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&dq="dilogy" Page 71]
      Most notable of these are his “dilogy” The Salamander (1841) and The Cosmorama (1839)
Synonyms
  • (two related works) duology (nonstandard)
Related terms Translations
  • Portuguese: bilogia
  • Spanish: bilogía



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