monostylistic

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Etymology[edit]

mono- +‎ stylistic

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monostylistic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to a single style (manner of doing or presenting things).
    • 1948, C. Ludwig Brummé, Contemporary American Sculpture:
      Were there one dominant, isolated mythology governing the American thought pattern, which the American sculptor interpreted, as did the Egyptian, the Greek, the Roman, and others, contemporary sculpture would likewise be monostylistic and thematic.
    • 2004, Gerhard Leitner, Australian English - The National Language, page 263:
      Though fairly homogeneous, standard languages are by no means monostylistic, as I said in section 3.4.2.
    • 2005, Robert D. Borsley, Welsh Negation and Grammatical Theory, page 12:
      These works are monostylistic and prescriptive: they concentrate upon formal Welsh, and they promote this variety of Welsh as a model of correctness.

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