pronominal
Americanadjective
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Grammar. pertaining to, resembling, derived from, or containing a pronoun.
“My” in “my book” is a pronominal adjective. “There” is a pronominal adverb.
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Heraldry. noting the coat of arms on a quartered escutcheon: customarily occupying the first quarter and being the original coat of arms of the paternal line.
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adjective
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Etymology
Origin of pronominal
From the Late Latin word prōnōminālis, dating back to 1635–45. See pronoun, -al 1
Example Sentences
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Through perspectival shifts, pronominal slippage and shout-outs to cinema, poetry and of course music, Mercier allows the duo’s fears and displaced ambitions to turn into one another in revelatory, oneiric and, ultimately, disturbing ways.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2018
Most were necessitated by the demands of a metered line of poetry, and hence might be thought of more as a simple contraction than a pronominal phrase.
From Time ● Jul. 6, 2015
Tya is a pronominal base, and therefore such adjectives as dakshiņâ-tya, southern, or âp-tya, aquatic, from âp, water, must have been conceived originally as “water-there,” or “south-there.”
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
The tense signs consist principally of single vowels, by means of which the pronominal prefixes are attached to the stem.
From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
Between these prefixes and the noun or verb, pronominal infixes are introduced, by which possession is denoted in the case of a noun, and the subject in that of a verb.
From Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various
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