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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of parenthesise.

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Examples

  • Indeed, your final, parenthesised sentence degenerates into complete incoherence.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Not, he parenthesised, that for the sake of filthy lucre he need necessarily embrace the lyric platform as a walk in life for any lengthy space of time.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Not, he parenthesised, that for the sake of filthy lucre he need necessarily embrace the lyric platform as a walk in life for any lengthy space of time.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • The words parenthesised are of some obscurity, but apparently are exclamations of a disgustful kind.

    The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900

  • I quite hold, "Fanny with characteristic amplitude parenthesised," that a person can mostly feel but one passion -- one TENDER passion, that is -- at a time.

    The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

  • I quite hold, "Fanny with characteristic amplitude parenthesised," that a person can mostly feel but one passion -- one TENDER passion, that is -- at a time.

    The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

  • I quite hold, "Fanny with characteristic amplitude parenthesised," that a person can mostly feel but one passion -- one TENDER passion, that is -- at a time.

    The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

  • I quite hold, "Fanny with characteristic amplitude parenthesised," that a person can mostly feel but one passion -- one TENDER passion, that is -- at a time.

    The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

  • I quite hold, "Fanny with characteristic amplitude parenthesised," that a person can mostly feel but one passion -- one TENDER passion, that is -- at a time.

    The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

  • I quite hold, "Fanny with characteristic amplitude parenthesised," that a person can mostly feel but one passion -- one TENDER passion, that is -- at a time.

    The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

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