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miscellany

[mis-uh-ley-nee, mi-sel-uh-nee] / ˈmɪs əˌleɪ ni, mɪˈsɛl ə ni /


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The word “anthology” comes from the Greek for “gathering of flowers”—that is, a miscellany.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 19, 2025

Dr Veronese found the sonnet featured in a miscellany - a type of manuscript which contains a selection of texts from different authors on various subjects - stored at the Bodleian Library.

From BBC Mar. 4, 2025

The House released a negotiated short-term government funding bill this week, and a number of year-end priorities on health care, agriculture, and other miscellany were tacked on.

From Slate Dec. 21, 2024

Federica Gigante, a historian at the University of Cambridge, first noticed it in a corner of a photograph while searching online for an image of a 17th-century collector whose miscellany was housed in the museum.

From New York Times Mar. 12, 2024

The force of it knocked Anya’s armful of miscellany to the ground.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

Like the two earlier miscellanies, this volume is Boswellian in its devotion to its subject and in its near-biblical bulk.

From New York Times Dec. 1, 2017

However, as it goes with the best musical miscellanies, Untitled Unmastered is also a tour through the artist’s sketchbook, sharing shifting moods and tangential thoughts amid the grander statements he’s known for.

From Slate Mar. 7, 2016

Fraser, Barry and Calasso’s miscellanies all belong to that sometimes cutesy, but usually captivating genre, “books about books.”

From Washington Post Dec. 2, 2015

They were compilers of knowledge, either utilitarian or speculative, who used chapters as a way of organizing large miscellanies.

From The New Yorker Oct. 29, 2014

JAMESON, Anna Murphy.—Visits and Sketches at home and abroad with tales and miscellanies now first collected and a new edition of the Diary of an Ennuyée.

From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various




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