| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| prosopography |
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| SYLLABICATION: | pros·o·pog·ra·phy |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  pr s  -pg r-f |
| NOUN: | A study, often using statistics, that identifies and draws relationships between various characters or people within a specific historical, social, or literary context: “an authentic tour de force of historical writing: part intellectual history, part cultural history, part prosopography” (Josiah Bunting III). | | ETYMOLOGY: | Greek pros pon, character ( pros-, pros- + ps, p-, face; see okw- in Appendix I) + –graphy. | | OTHER FORMS: | proso·po·graphi·cal (-p-gr f -kl) —ADJECTIVE
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