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Parenthetical   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



... John's Gospel of the then general notoriety of the story are the following: His manner of introducing his narrative (ch. i. ver. 15.)—"John bare witness of him, and cried, saying" evidently presupposes that his readers knew who John was. His rapid parenthetical reference to John's imprisonment, "for John was not yet cast into prison," (John iii, 24.) could only come from a writer whose mind was in the habit of considering John's imprisonment as perfectly notorious. The description of Andrew by the ...
— Evidences of Christianity • William Paley
... racial heredity for the time being,—which must then be left to lie fallow. So now, America not being discovered, and there being no further eastward to go, we must jump westward the width of two continents (nearly), and (that last lecture being parenthetical as it were) come from Han Chaoti's death to Augustus' birth, from China ...
— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris
... [6] The parenthetical clause is evidently the work of one of the clerks who copied the decrees in the "Cedulario Indico." The decree mentioned, whose general tenor can easily be seen from the present decree, is not given, probably owing to an oversight of the ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXV, 1635-36 • Various
... being in danger, i.e. she not being in danger: absolute construction. This parenthetical line is equivalent to a conditional clause—'if she be not in danger, the mere want of light and noise need not ...
— Milton's Comus • John Milton


Words linked to "Parenthetical" :   incidental, adjunct, parenthetic, parenthesis, incident, parenthetical expression


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