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Adjunction   Listen
noun
Adjunction  n.  The act of joining; the thing joined or added.






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"Adjunction" Quotes from Famous Books



... language of men by the epithet to 'morning'. (For we will set aside, at present, the consideration, that the particular word 'smiling' is hackneyed and (as it involves a sort of personification) not quite congruous with the common and material attribute of shining.) And, doubtless, this adjunction of epithets for the purpose of additional description, where no particular attention is demanded for the quality of the thing, would be noticed as giving a poetic cast to a man's conversation. Should the sportsman exclaim, ...
— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various



Words linked to "Adjunction" :   connexion, joining, junction



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