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Parenthetical   /pərɛnθˈɛtɪkəl/   Listen
Parenthetical

noun
1.
An expression in parentheses.  Synonym: parenthetical expression.





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"Parenthetical" Quotes from Famous Books



... letter he had received seven years before, he was pretty sure to deliver you the entire screed from memory. And then without observing that he was departing from the true line of his talk, he was more than likely to hurl in a long-drawn parenthetical biography of the writer of that letter; and you were lucky indeed if he did not take up that writer's relatives, one by one, and give you their ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


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


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