Citations:propreantepenult


 * 1893, Robert Irving Fulton and Thomas Clarkson Trueblood, Practical Elements of Elocution: Designed as a Text-Book for the Guidance of Teachers and Students of Expression (3rd ed., Ginn & Company), page 273
 * When the propreantepenult is the last strong syllable, use the Pentad.
 * 1946, Harry Charles McKown, Home Room Guidance (2nd ed., McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.), page 2
 * There was a time when he could spell “verisimilitude,” “abstemious,” “sacrilegious,” and similar words; when he could define onomatopoeia, propreantepenult, and give examples of dactyl and anapaest; when he could work a quadratic equation that he would not even recognize today and extract cube root; when he could name, in proper order, the Kings of England since the War of the Roses, or ten consecutive presidents of the United States; when he could list all the bones of the body, trace the circulation of the blood, repeat memorized but not understood definitions, and work outlandish problems in mathematics that rarely, or never, occur in real life.