dissertational love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to dissertations; disquisitional.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Relating to dissertations; resembling a dissertation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Resembling or pertaining to dissertations.

Etymologies

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dissertation +‎ -al

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Examples

  • In a recent study conducted by a some of my students, observation was made on popular, high - middle-class dancing places where, believe it or not, dissertational decisions are made about who gets in and who doesn't.

    Racism And Business In Mexico 2005

  • The differences that "professionalize" us are almost to the one differences of canon, which is to say differences in (a) departmental requirements and (b) dissertational focus, which are both external (and largely artificial) pressures designed to make us employable in some traditionally defined department, so that someday if we're lucky we can require future grad students to read far outside their area of interest and thereby justify our scholarly existence.

    Gerry Canavan 2007

  • In a recent study conducted by a some of my students, observation was made on popular, high - middle-class dancing places where, believe it or not, dissertational decisions are made about who gets in and who doesn't.

    Racism And Business In Mexico 2005

  • But, I can almost gaurantee you that you do not do so as part of an independant, open analysis, but more from a dissertational, outcome based research viewpoint.

    American Coastopia! 2004

  • The dissertational department is equally faulty; for to first impressions everything on earth is chameleon-like.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

  • The primordial germ is not poetical, but dissertational.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

  • The differences that “professionalize” us are almost to the one differences of canon, which is to say differences in (a) departmental requirements and (b) dissertational focus, which are both external (and largely artificial) pressures designed to make us employable in some traditionally defined department, so that someday if we’re lucky we can require future grad students to read far outside their area of interest and thereby justify our scholarly existence.

    Gerry Canavan 2007

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