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  • adjective Alternative form of well-formed.

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Examples

  • As the success of the restoration depends more upon wellformed teachers than on methods, the novitiate of every motherhouse should provide for all its candidates a gradual and complete course of Chant, not on a theoretical, but on an experimental basis.

    What is unique to Catholic music? 2009

  • For example, the sentence "John called Mary a Republican and then SHE insulted HIM" [5] is a wellformed sentence only on the assumption that the participants regard it as insulting to be called a Republican.

    A Special Supplement: Chomsky's Revolution in Linguistics Searle, John R. 1972

  • The other two-a big-boned bay and an unusually wellformed Andalusian gray, with a small head and long sweeping tail -- had ladies 'saddles.

    Barbara Blomberg — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • The other two-a big-boned bay and an unusually wellformed Andalusian gray, with a small head and long sweeping tail -- had ladies 'saddles.

    Barbara Blomberg — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867

  • The other two-a big-boned bay and an unusually wellformed Andalusian gray, with a small head and long sweeping tail -- had ladies 'saddles.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • When an individual uses a new word, if illformed it is rejected in society, if wellformed, adopted, and, after due time, laid up in the depository of dictionaries.

    Letters 1760

  • Simpletidy cleans and converts your webpages to wellformed XHTML 1.0.

    20 Newest Free Software Downloads - Freeware Files.com 2010

  • HTML, plain CSS, wellformed and descriptive URLs, sensible metadata and a high performance.

    Planet Python 2010

  • Whilst the above example shows wellformed nesting in

    TWiki.Codev 2008

  • a swell as to compose her a wellformed fulness of bosom, that had such an effect on the eye as to seem flesh hardening into marble, of which it emulated the polished gloss, and far surpassed even the whitest, in the life and lustre of its colours, white veined with blue.

    Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 2004

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