Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In apposition or so as to stand in apposition; apposition ally: as, substantive expressions put appositively.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an appositive manner
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Examples
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The Frenchman made a remark to his wife that fitted in appositively enough.
At Bertram's Hotel Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1965
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Was I dreaming? or had I been speaking aloud, really putting the questions he answered so quickly and appositively?
Mr. Isaacs 1881
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Your editorial states that if Scott Brown derails the health-care reform bill, he will for the rest of his political lifetime be appositively identified as "the senator who killed health-care reform."
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Under the adage "you break it, you've bought it," if he derails this bill, he will for the rest of his political lifetime be appositively identified as "the senator who killed health-care reform."
ScrippsNews 2010
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