Definitions
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- adjective having no theme. Opposite of
thematic .
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- adjective Not
thematic .
Etymologies
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non- + thematic
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Examples
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The names of the tropes are indeed important, but only, or precisely, as red herrings: "they permit the methodology to advertise itself as rigorously rhetorical or nonthematic, and therefore to displace its thematic to the unconscious of its own terminology" (227).
Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005
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Education Health Insurance, the French Speaking Association for the Study of Diabetes and Metabolism, the National Agency for Research (nonthematic program), and the National Institute for Research in Public Health (TGIR health cohort 2008 program).
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition current issue Regnault 2010
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