spellingwise en · ADV
Etymology
From spelling + -wise.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In terms of spelling.
Reading notes spellingwise is fatal to expressing feeling through song or instrument. It is like deciphering in reading or transverbalizing in translating a foreign language.
1946, B. Marian Brooks, Harry Alvin Brown, Music Education in the Elementary School, page 55:The varying enunciation of the same combination of consonants, or of vowels, or of both, make it impossible to read English only spellingwise.
1900, Psychological Monographs, page 47:Although to a certain degree he had read the language “spellingwise,” he still recognized many words by familiar combinations of letters and by the sense.
1896 October 6, B. Onuf, “A Contribution to the Study of Motor Aphasia”, in George F[rederick] Shrady, editor, Medical Record: A Weekly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume 50, New York, N.Y.: William Wood and Company, published 24 October 1896, page 607:Two things have helped to produce that monstrosity of the schoolroom—the word-pronouncer; the first is the lack of mastery of the word so that the child is forced to read spelling[-]wise.
1897, Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities: