subjoinder
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of subjoinder
1825–35; sub- + -joinder, as in rejoinder
Example Sentences
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"I don't know that, Sir, but I will never stand to be hissed," was the subjoinder of young Confidence—when gathering up his features into one significant mass of wonder, pity, and expostulatory indignation—in a lesson never to have been lost upon a creature less forward than she who stood before him—his words were these: "They have hissed me."
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