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- verb British To place text in
parentheses .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I parenthesise at any rate that I know him in no other light -- counting out of course the acquaintance that consists of a dismayed arrest in the road, with back flattened against wall or hedge, for the dusty, smoky, stenchy shock of his passage.
Italian Hours Henry James 1879
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It should be ‘descriptions’ to follow through the plural nature of ‘marks’.) 1 They parenthesise.
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It should be ‘descriptions’ to follow through the plural nature of ‘marks’.) 1 They parenthesise.
English in the Times 2008
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It should be ‘descriptions’ to follow through the plural nature of ‘marks’.) 1 They parenthesise.
English in the Times 2008
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It would be a very graceful exercise of gratitude for me here to stop and parenthesise the reader on the subject of all that twelve-pound-ten has been to me, how it has quite changed the course of my life, given me that long-desired opportunity of doing my best work in peace, for which so often I vainly sighed in Fleet Street, and even allowed me an indulgence in minor luxuries which I could not have dreamed of enjoying before the days of that twelve-pound-ten.
Prose Fancies (Second Series) Richard Le Gallienne 1906
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