Of a word or phrase: serving merely to fill out a sentence or a metrical line without adding anything to the sense; (also) serving as a grammatical…
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| 释义 | society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > serving to fill out sentence, etc. (3) expletivec1450 Of a word or phrase: serving merely to fill out a sentence or a metrical line without adding anything to the sense; (also) serving as a grammatical… suppletorya1631 That makes good a deficiency; supplementary; = suppletive, adj. 1. With of, to. Now chiefly Law. expletory1679 Serving to fill up or complete something; unnecessary; (of a word or expression) serving to fill out a sentence or a metrical line; = expletive, adj.… |
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