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Pronominal

noun
1.
A phrase that functions as a pronoun.  Synonym: pronominal phrase.






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... down—he completed the word without reconsulting the copy. It is not unlikely that Shakespeare intended first to express, generally, the same thought, which a little afterwards he repeats with a particular application to the persons meant;—a common usage of the pronominal "our," where the speaker does not really mean to include himself; and the word "you" is an additional confirmation of the "our," being used in this place for "men" generally and indefinitely,—just as "you do not meet" is the same ...
— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge



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