Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With the effect or force of a pronoun; by means of a pronoun.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a pronominal manner� with the nature or office of a pronoun; as a pronoun.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb linguistics In a
pronominal manner; as apronoun .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A few which, when used pronominally, have their meaning intensified or more or less modified, as --
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano
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Many which may be used pronominally or otherwise without any appreciable or definable modification of meaning, as --
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano
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Although we experienced hurricane loss of this quarter pronominally from Hurricane, Ike with some loss just coming from the other three U.S. landfall events.
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"What was that notion of his" -- they usually spoke of the minister pronominally -- "about getting the Savors going in a co-operative boarding-house at Fall River?
Annie Kilburn : a Novel William Dean Howells 1878
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John Hus, a host of artists, etc.), inconsistently resists mis-identification, and for most of the novel is only referred to by others pronominally.
An und für sich 2010
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