anaphoric

American  

[an-uh-fawr-ik, -for-] / ˌæn əˈfɔr ɪk, -ˈfɒr- /

adjective

Grammar.

1. referring back to or substituting for a preceding word or group of words.

   anaphoric reference.

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anaphoric British  

/ ˌænəˈfɒrɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to anaphorism

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Other Word Forms

• anaphorically adverb

Etymology

Origin of anaphoric

First recorded in 1910–15; anaphor(a) + -ic

Example Sentences

Ultimately, aMCI patients performed significantly worse than the control groups when producing sentences with "anaphoric coreference," the ones with ambiguity about the identity of the person referred to via a pronoun.

From Science Daily

The anaphoric “even,” the visceral sounds stitched into the syntax, the intimacy of the ending: It requires breath to read.

From New York Times

These rules also discourage unattended anaphoric pronouns and say that split infinitives should be rarely used.

From Nature

The pronoun is unstable, subject to anaphoric shifts.

From The Guardian

In the anaphoric clock a disc engraved with the stars is rotated automatically behind a fixed grille of wires marking lines of altitude and azimuth.

From Project Gutenberg