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apposition

[ap-uh-zish-uhn] / ˌæp əˈzɪʃ ən /




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These appositions were renewed in 1565, and probably still continue from year to year.

From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by Hazlitt, W. Carew

Moods, tenses, antecedents, appositions, whirl and flash around you, to the sound of some strange, barbaric music.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various

His diction was at all times precise, which led to a multiplicity of qualifications—adjectives, appositions, adverbs, parentheses, and the like.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle by Francke, Kuno




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