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Parenthetical   /pərɛnθˈɛtɪkəl/   Listen
adjective
parenthetical, parenthetic  adj.  
1.
Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as if in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark; a parenthetical style. "A parenthetical observation of Moses himself."
2.
Using or containing parentheses.
3.
Added within parentheses to amplify or explain; as, parenthetical remarks.





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"Parenthetical" Quotes from Famous Books



... often unfamiliar questions in concise, exasperatingly obscure dialectics. The language, too, is obscure, and the lack of punctuation renders reading difficult to novices. No mark separates question from answer, digressions from parenthetical observations. The phrases form only a long string of words placed one after the other, in which one distinguishes neither the beginning nor ...
— Rashi • Maurice Liber
... say!—you haven't, any of you, got a picture of Sylvester, have you?" he turned in a vague parenthetical appeal to the company of relatives and friends collected in the drawing-room ...
— Sally Dows and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... but satisfactory, too. Oh, perfectly satisfactory." The grave face and twinkling eyes with which this cordial acquiescence in the conclusion arrived at was expressed were irresistibly exhilarating. Just in the same way there was a sort of parenthetical smack of the lips in the self-communing of Scrooge when, at the very close of the story, after hesitating awhile at his Nephew's door as to whether he should knock, he made a dash and did it. "Is your master at home, my dear?" ...
— Charles Dickens as a Reader • Charles Kent
... give rarity and splendour to his thanks. Janie pondered over them a little, but when Crayshaw added, "Quite parenthetical," she gave it up. That was a word she could not hope to understand. When a difficulty is once confessed to be unconquerable, the mind can repose before it as before difficulties overcome, so says Whately. "If it had only been as hard a ...
— Fated to Be Free • Jean Ingelow
... opening of the "Cypria" is somewhat similar. Somewhere in the fragmentary lines 13-19 a son of Zeus—almost certainly Apollo—was introduced, though for what purpose is not clear. With l. 31 the destruction of man (cp. ll. 4-5) by storms which spoil his crops begins: the remaining verses are parenthetical, describing the snake 'which bears its young ...
— Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod


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