Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inserted parenthetically, or between other things, as a clause in a sentence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Added or placed between the parts of another thing, as a clause inserted parenthetically in a sentence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Added or placed between the parts of another thing, such as a
clause insertedparenthetically into asentence .
Etymologies
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inter- + additive
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Examples
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I can certainly understand it as a parenthesis, an interadditive of scorn; but it does not sound to my ear as in
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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I can certainly understand it as a parenthesis, an interadditive of scorn; but it does not sound to my ear as in
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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