complemental
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Etymology
Origin of complemental
First recorded in 1595–1605; complement + -al 1
Example Sentences
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If we could get hold of a complemental critic, a critic who saw what the age did not see, and who saw rightly what the age mistook, we should have a critic of inestimable value.
From The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot
The two are complemental and necessary to each other.
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry
By so living together a wise husband and a loving wife will soon discover that they two are but complemental to each other—like the Will and Understanding of one individual.
From Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects by Henry Newell Guernsey
Also if you ever find any species of Scalpellum, pray look for complemental males; a German author has recently doubted my observations for no reason except that the facts appeared to him so strange.
From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
Forms of poetry are complemental to each other, and one who tries to be merely dramatic without appreciating the lyric spirit becomes theatric.
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry
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