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English
Etymology
Back-formation from discovery.
Noun
covery (plural coveries)
- (rare) A dispelling of false or misleading notions.
1912, Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, London: A. C. Fifield, page 180:The Art of Covery: This is as important and interesting as Dis-covery. Surely the glory of finally getting rid of and burying a long and troublesome matter should be as great as that of making an important discovery. The trouble is that the coverer is like Samson who perished in the wreck of what he had destroyed; if he gets rid of a thing effectually he gets rid of himself too.
1937, C. D. Darlington, J. B. S. Haldane, “Foreword”, in Recent Advances in Cytology, page vi:This book is indispensable not only because of the discoveries it describes, but almost equally on account of the coveries, to borrow a word from Samuel Butler. A fundamental covery is that the expressions “reductional division” and “equational division,” those bogies of our schooldays, are meaningless.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔˈvɛ.rɘ/, /kaˈvɛ.rɘ/
- Rhymes: -ɛrɘ
- Syllabification: co‧ve‧ry
Noun
covery m
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of cover