copulatives

I have quoted Mr. Rodwell who affects the Arabic formula, omitting the normal copulatives.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

To discard the copulatives for the sake of energy was a rule laid down by the best ancient critics.

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus

Cicero has observed that an oration may be said to be disjointed, when the copulatives are omitted, and strokes of sentiment follow one another in quick succession.

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus

_Particular attention to the use of copulatives, relatives, and all the particles employed for transition and connexion, is required_.

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

I press in here, sir, amongst the rest of the country copulatives, to swear, and to forswear, according as marriage binds and blood breaks.

Act V. Scene IV. As You Like It 1914

I have quoted Mr. Rodwell who affects the Arabic formula, omitting the normal copulatives.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

I can by no means approve of studied abbreviations, and leaving out the needful copulatives of speech in trading letters; they are to an extreme affected; no beauty to the style, but, on the contrary, a deformity of the grossest nature.

The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) Daniel Defoe 1696

"These are the very copulatives, diphthongs, and adjectives of Hooker, Milton, and

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 Alexander Pope 1716