parenthesisn.

Brit.

/pəˈrɛnθᵻsɪs/, U.S.

/pəˈrɛnθəsəs/

Inflections: Plural parentheses.

Forms: 1500s– parenthesis, 1600s parentesis, 1600s parenthesies (plural).

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin parenthesis.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin parenthesis rhetorical device by which an example or aside is inserted (3rd cent.; in classical Latin (Quintilian) as a Greek word) < Hellenistic Greek παρένθεσις < ancient Greek παρα- para- prefix¹ + ἐν in (see en- prefix¹) + θέσις placing (see thesis n.), after Hellenistic Greek παρεντιθέναι to put in beside. Compare Old Occitan parenthezis (c1323; Occitan parentèsi ), Catalan parèntesi (1415 or earlier), Middle French, French parenthèse (c1480 as †parenteze ; 1626 in sense 2a), Spanish paréntesis (1535), Italian parentesi (1549; also 1566 as †parentesis ; 1575 in sense 2a), Portuguese parêntese (16th cent. as †parentêsis).Compare also Older Scots parenthose , in sense 1a (one isolated attestation; probably an error for parenthese < Middle French parenthèse):1572 in Cal. State Papers Scotl. (1905) IV. 218 [The exception included within the] parenthose [must be taken away].

a. A word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation, aside, or afterthought into a passage with which it has not necessarily any grammatical connection, in writing usually marked off by brackets, dashes, or commas; (hence, more generally) an afterthought, an explanatory aside.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [noun] > passage > explanatory part of

parenthesis1548

parenthetical1867

1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxxi^v The Duke somwhat marueylynge at his sodaine pauses as thoughe thei were but parentheses, with a high countenaunce saied: my lorde [etc.].

1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. N2^v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Parenthesis, an intercluding of a sentence..commonly set betweene two halfe circles, as thus: I am content (not in respect you deserue so much at my handes) onely for pity sake to hearken vnto you.

1631 R. Byfield Doctr. Sabbath Vindicated 218 Note M. Breerwoods Parenthesies.

1659 in T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 283 You see the inconveniency of a long parenthesis; we have forgot the sense that went before.

1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xvi. 73 The phænomenon had not been worth a parenthesis.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 147 I..understand it as a parenthesis, an interadditive of scorn.

1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations I. iv. 53 ‘You listen to this,’ said my sister to me, in a severe parenthesis.

1935 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 11 Mar. (1964) 260 This letter is a case of the tail (the parenthesis) wagging the dog.

1971 K. Millett Sexual Politics (1972) i. ii. 24 By way of parenthesis one might add [etc.].

1990 L. H. Powers in H. James & E. Wharton Lett. Introd. 5 That explanatory parenthesis may have the look of ‘sour grapes’.

2010 S. Heffer Strictly Eng. iii. 41 Do not forget that when a comma is used to open a parenthesis, another is required to end it.

b. The grammatical or rhetorical device of inserting such an explanation or aside.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > parenthesis

parenthesis1550

insertor1589

interjection1678

1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. Bviii Parenthesis. Interpositio..dissolucion of the order of the words by putting a sentence betwixt.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xii^*. 140 Your first figure of tollerable disorder is (Parenthesis) or by an English name the (Insertour).

1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Interjection,..also a figure in Rhetorick and Grammar, being the same with Parenthesis, and otherwise called Interruption.

1836 H. Rogers Life J. Howe (1863) xi. 333 He is..full of involution, parenthesis, and awkward transposition.

1902 Daily Chron. 5 May 4/3 That essential quality of the amusing storyteller, the art of parenthesis, the dropping in of the appropriate and unexpected word, the swift and illuminating phrase.

1992 English 41 183 He reinvents a word, ‘lunulae’, to help distinguish between the grammatical structure of parenthesis and its typographical notation.

2007 S. Schneider Reduced Parenthetical Clauses as Mitigators ii. 25 For Bloomfield,..parenthesis is a variety of parataxis in which one form interrupts the other.

†c. A passage introduced into a context with which it has no connection; an irrelevant digression. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > discursiveness or digression > a digression

sojournc1330

digressionc1374

adigression1483

start1534

interposition1553

vagary1572

excursion1574

excourse1579

parecbasis1584

parenthesis1594

transversal1612

evagation1618

passage1625

far-about1639

excurrency1650

deviation1665

parathesis1668

alieniloquy1727

side-slip1843

excursus1845

1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night (1958) I. 375 Thus I conclude with this chance-medley Parenthesis.

1599 T. Heywood 1st Pt. King Edward IV sig. D2 Away with this parenthises [sic] of words.

1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 4 But let this go for a Parenthesis; return we to our task.

1757 H. Walpole Lett. to H. Mann 5 May (1846) III. 288 I thought you would prefer this parenthesis of politics.

a. The upright curves ( ) used to mark off a word or clause inserted parenthetically; round brackets. Originally as collective singular; now usually in plural (sometimes with singular form). in parentheses (also in (a) parenthesis): in brackets.Occasionally applied to square brackets [ ].

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society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > [noun] > brackets

parenthesis1582

squadron1618

parathesis1633

brace1656

hooks1680

bracket1750

circumflex1801

round bracket1847

curve1851

angle bracket1890

square bracket1891

paren1905

angled bracket1954

semi-quadratures-

1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xvii. 109 Those characts which signify but sound not,..which be in number thirtene, in name & form these: Coma, Colon: Period. Parenthesis (.) interrogation?..the sharp accent [etc.].

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. C2 The Kitchin..was no bigger than the Cooks roome in a ship, with a little Court chimney, about the compasse of a Parenthesis in Proclamation print.

1697 T. Crisp Just & Lawful Tryal Foxonian Chief Priests Errata f. A1^v There be some words inclosed in Parentheses.

1715 T. Emlyn Full Inq. Orig. Authority Text 65 Our old Bibles..had these Words..in small Letters, and sometimes in a Parenthesis.

1724 S. Lowe Gram. Lat. Tongue Notes 1 The superior letters in parenthesis answer to superiors in the grammar.

1765 R. Spearman Suppl. Wks. John Hutchinson Advt. to Rdr. To which the Editor has added in Parentheses, the correspondent Pages of the 3d Edition.

1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 274 The Parenthesis serves to inclose such parts of a Period as make no part of the subject.

1808 L. Murray Eng. Gram. Illustr. I. iv. 390 The parenthesis itself does not supply the place of a point between the parenthetic clause, and the words immediately preceding it.

1823 H. J. Brooke Familiar Introd. Crystallogr. 238 This symbol is placed in a parenthesis to distinguish it from a combination of three simple or mixed decrements.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. iv. 11/1 Sentences..in quite angular attitudes, buttressed up by props (of parentheses and dashes).

1923 B. Karlgren Analyt. Dict. Chinese & Sino-Japanese 7 After the Sino-Japanese readings I often add in parenthesis the Kana spelling.

1993 Jrnl. Petrol. 34 402 (table) Standard deviations are given in parentheses.

2008 D. Blakesley & J. L. Hoogeveen Thomson Handbk. liii. 962/1 Parentheses are used to enclose material that interrupts the flow of a sentence or paragraph.

b. In extended use. A pair of curved lines or figures resembling round brackets.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > thing or part in other curved shapes

heart1446

scutule1592

figure (of) eight1607

parenthesis1608

scallop1609

curvilineal1636

stirrup1684

pelecoid1706

shield1849

pretzel1919

jug handle1955

1608 J. Day Law-trickes sig. E1 Doost see Vulcan with the horning parenthesis in his fore-head!

1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. vii. sig. C3 A Manu-script he pores on euerlastingly, especially if the couer bee all moth-eaten, and the dust make a Parenthesis betweene euery sillyble.

1823 C. Lamb Christ's Hosp. in Elia 41 Weaving those ingenious parentheses, called cat-cradles.

1873 A. D. Whitney Other Girls xxxiv. 448 The animal made a half parenthesis of himself, curving skittishly..as he went by the frightsome pile.

2002 Boston Globe (Nexis) 29 Sept. c16 It was as if the parentheses formed around Burke by James King and McKnight had been erased on the BC duo's second 6-point alliance 5:29 before halftime.

c. Logic and Computing. A pair of brackets used to disambiguate a complex expression by grouping the symbols occurring within the scope of an operator. Also: a single (left- or right-hand) bracket so used. Cf. parenthesis-free adj.

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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > predicate or propositional logic > [noun] > mathematical or symbolic logic > Polish school of symbolic logic > symbols

parenthesis1880

incomplete symbol1910

stroke1925

horseshoe1926

Sheffer('s) stroke1932

hook1967

tilde1979

1880 C. S. Peirce in Amer. Jrnl. Math. 3 57 By junction-marks will be meant, in case the parenthesis {follows/precedes} the third letter, the {first/second} mark of the symbol of the interior operation and the {second/first} mark of the symbol of the exterior operation.

1918 C. I. Lewis Surv. Symbolic Logic iv. 233 For any function of one variable we here omit any parenthesis around the variable.

1940 W. V. Quine Math. Logic i. 40 The parenthesis notation formulated at the beginning of the section is retained.

1976 H. Leblanc Truth-value Semantics i. 11 When no ambiguity threatens, we shall omit the outer parentheses of conditionals, conjunctives..and biconditionals.

1990 L. Wall & R. L. Schwartz Programming Perl iii. 80 If any list operator..is followed by a left parenthesis as the next token on the same line, the operator and arguments within parentheses are taken to be of highest precedence.

2006 N. B. Dale & J. A. McCormick ADA Plus Data Struct. v. 342 When a right parenthesis is encountered, the stack is repeatedly popped, appending the popped operators to the result string.

3. figurative. An interval, an interlude, a hiatus.

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the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > period of time between events or interval

waya1300

distancec1330

interstition1390

spacea1400

pastimea1513

vacance1533

intermission?1566

vacation1567

intervallum1574

interim1579

between-timea1586

wem1599

parenthesis1600

intermedium1611

betweena1616

fore-while?1615

interpolation1615

vacancya1616

interval1616

interstitium1624

slatcha1625

interspace1629

intermissa1633

between-spacea1641

interregnum1659

intervalea1661

interlapse1666

interlude1751

in-between1815

lapse1817

intermezzo1851

meanwhile1872

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iii. iii. sig. Kiv^v I ne're knew Tabacco taken as a parenthesis before.

1654 R. Codrington tr. Justinus Hist. iii. 62 In the Parenthesis of time whiles the Infant grew up, he..made Laws for the Spartans.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 131 Charles..gives me an account, interrupted by many a sweet parenthesis of kisses, of the success of his measures.

1796 C. Burney Mem. Life Metastasio II. 162 Rural amusements usually serve as a parenthesis to music.

1899 S. A. Brooke Eng. Lit. 152 That parenthesis of bad government and national tumult which filled the years between the death of Aldfrith..and the renewed peace and order under Ceolwulf.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 651 Infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years..of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.

1989 A. Burgess Any Old Iron ii. 95 The war's..a parenthesis. A mad life in brackets.

2011 A. McLean tr. A. Suárez in tr. J. Cercas Anat. of Moment (2012) vi. 128 I don't want the democratic system of coexistence to be, once again, a parenthesis in the history of Spain.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	parenthesis
释义	parenthesisn. Brit. /pəˈrɛnθᵻsɪs/, U.S. /pəˈrɛnθəsəs/ Inflections: Plural parentheses. Forms: 1500s– parenthesis, 1600s parentesis, 1600s parenthesies (plural). Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin parenthesis. Etymology: < post-classical Latin parenthesis rhetorical device by which an example or aside is inserted (3rd cent.; in classical Latin (Quintilian) as a Greek word) < Hellenistic Greek παρένθεσις < ancient Greek παρα- para- prefix¹ + ἐν in (see en- prefix¹) + θέσις placing (see thesis n.), after Hellenistic Greek παρεντιθέναι to put in beside. Compare Old Occitan parenthezis (c1323; Occitan parentèsi ), Catalan parèntesi (1415 or earlier), Middle French, French parenthèse (c1480 as †parenteze ; 1626 in sense 2a), Spanish paréntesis (1535), Italian parentesi (1549; also 1566 as †parentesis ; 1575 in sense 2a), Portuguese parêntese (16th cent. as †parentêsis).Compare also Older Scots parenthose , in sense 1a (one isolated attestation; probably an error for parenthese < Middle French parenthèse):1572 in Cal. State Papers Scotl. (1905) IV. 218 [The exception included within the] parenthose [must be taken away]. 1. a. A word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation, aside, or afterthought into a passage with which it has not necessarily any grammatical connection, in writing usually marked off by brackets, dashes, or commas; (hence, more generally) an afterthought, an explanatory aside. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [noun] > passage > explanatory part of parenthesis1548 parenthetical1867 1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxxi^v The Duke somwhat marueylynge at his sodaine pauses as thoughe thei were but parentheses, with a high countenaunce saied: my lorde [etc.]. 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. N2^v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Parenthesis, an intercluding of a sentence..commonly set betweene two halfe circles, as thus: I am content (not in respect you deserue so much at my handes) onely for pity sake to hearken vnto you. 1631 R. Byfield Doctr. Sabbath Vindicated 218 Note M. Breerwoods Parenthesies. 1659 in T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 283 You see the inconveniency of a long parenthesis; we have forgot the sense that went before. 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xvi. 73 The phænomenon had not been worth a parenthesis. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 147 I..understand it as a parenthesis, an interadditive of scorn. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations I. iv. 53 ‘You listen to this,’ said my sister to me, in a severe parenthesis. 1935 F. S. Fitzgerald Let. 11 Mar. (1964) 260 This letter is a case of the tail (the parenthesis) wagging the dog. 1971 K. Millett Sexual Politics (1972) i. ii. 24 By way of parenthesis one might add [etc.]. 1990 L. H. Powers in H. James & E. Wharton Lett. Introd. 5 That explanatory parenthesis may have the look of ‘sour grapes’. 2010 S. Heffer Strictly Eng. iii. 41 Do not forget that when a comma is used to open a parenthesis, another is required to end it. b. The grammatical or rhetorical device of inserting such an explanation or aside. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > parenthesis parenthesis1550 insertor1589 interjection1678 1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. Bviii Parenthesis. Interpositio..dissolucion of the order of the words by putting a sentence betwixt. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xii^. 140 Your first figure of tollerable disorder is (Parenthesis) or by an English name the (Insertour). 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words* (new ed.) Interjection,..also a figure in Rhetorick and Grammar, being the same with Parenthesis, and otherwise called Interruption. 1836 H. Rogers Life J. Howe (1863) xi. 333 He is..full of involution, parenthesis, and awkward transposition. 1902 Daily Chron. 5 May 4/3 That essential quality of the amusing storyteller, the art of parenthesis, the dropping in of the appropriate and unexpected word, the swift and illuminating phrase. 1992 English 41 183 He reinvents a word, ‘lunulae’, to help distinguish between the grammatical structure of parenthesis and its typographical notation. 2007 S. Schneider Reduced Parenthetical Clauses as Mitigators ii. 25 For Bloomfield,..parenthesis is a variety of parataxis in which one form interrupts the other. †c. A passage introduced into a context with which it has no connection; an irrelevant digression. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > discursiveness or digression > a digression sojournc1330 digressionc1374 adigression1483 start1534 interposition1553 vagary1572 excursion1574 excourse1579 parecbasis1584 parenthesis1594 transversal1612 evagation1618 passage1625 far-about1639 excurrency1650 deviation1665 parathesis1668 alieniloquy1727 side-slip1843 excursus1845 1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night (1958) I. 375 Thus I conclude with this chance-medley Parenthesis. 1599 T. Heywood 1st Pt. King Edward IV sig. D2 Away with this parenthises [sic] of words. 1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 4 But let this go for a Parenthesis; return we to our task. 1757 H. Walpole Lett. to H. Mann 5 May (1846) III. 288 I thought you would prefer this parenthesis of politics. 2. a. The upright curves ( ) used to mark off a word or clause inserted parenthetically; round brackets. Originally as collective singular; now usually in plural (sometimes with singular form). in parentheses (also in (a) parenthesis): in brackets.Occasionally applied to square brackets [ ]. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > [noun] > brackets parenthesis1582 squadron1618 parathesis1633 brace1656 hooks1680 bracket1750 circumflex1801 round bracket1847 curve1851 angle bracket1890 square bracket1891 paren1905 angled bracket1954 semi-quadratures- 1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xvii. 109 Those characts which signify but sound not,..which be in number thirtene, in name & form these: Coma, Colon: Period. Parenthesis (.) interrogation?..the sharp accent [etc.]. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. C2 The Kitchin..was no bigger than the Cooks roome in a ship, with a little Court chimney, about the compasse of a Parenthesis in Proclamation print. 1697 T. Crisp Just & Lawful Tryal Foxonian Chief Priests Errata f. A1^v There be some words inclosed in Parentheses. 1715 T. Emlyn Full Inq. Orig. Authority Text 65 Our old Bibles..had these Words..in small Letters, and sometimes in a Parenthesis. 1724 S. Lowe Gram. Lat. Tongue Notes 1 The superior letters in parenthesis answer to superiors in the grammar. 1765 R. Spearman Suppl. Wks. John Hutchinson Advt. to Rdr. To which the Editor has added in Parentheses, the correspondent Pages of the 3d Edition. 1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 274 The Parenthesis serves to inclose such parts of a Period as make no part of the subject. 1808 L. Murray Eng. Gram. Illustr. I. iv. 390 The parenthesis itself does not supply the place of a point between the parenthetic clause, and the words immediately preceding it. 1823 H. J. Brooke Familiar Introd. Crystallogr. 238 This symbol is placed in a parenthesis to distinguish it from a combination of three simple or mixed decrements. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. iv. 11/1 Sentences..in quite angular attitudes, buttressed up by props (of parentheses and dashes). 1923 B. Karlgren Analyt. Dict. Chinese & Sino-Japanese 7 After the Sino-Japanese readings I often add in parenthesis the Kana spelling. 1993 Jrnl. Petrol. 34 402 (table) Standard deviations are given in parentheses. 2008 D. Blakesley & J. L. Hoogeveen Thomson Handbk. liii. 962/1 Parentheses are used to enclose material that interrupts the flow of a sentence or paragraph. b. In extended use. A pair of curved lines or figures resembling round brackets. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > thing or part in other curved shapes heart1446 scutule1592 figure (of) eight1607 parenthesis1608 scallop1609 curvilineal1636 stirrup1684 pelecoid1706 shield1849 pretzel1919 jug handle1955 1608 J. Day Law-trickes sig. E1 Doost see Vulcan with the horning parenthesis in his fore-head! 1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. vii. sig. C3 A Manu-script he pores on euerlastingly, especially if the couer bee all moth-eaten, and the dust make a Parenthesis betweene euery sillyble. 1823 C. Lamb Christ's Hosp. in Elia 41 Weaving those ingenious parentheses, called cat-cradles. 1873 A. D. Whitney Other Girls xxxiv. 448 The animal made a half parenthesis of himself, curving skittishly..as he went by the frightsome pile. 2002 Boston Globe (Nexis) 29 Sept. c16 It was as if the parentheses formed around Burke by James King and McKnight had been erased on the BC duo's second 6-point alliance 5:29 before halftime. c. Logic and Computing. A pair of brackets used to disambiguate a complex expression by grouping the symbols occurring within the scope of an operator. Also: a single (left- or right-hand) bracket so used. Cf. parenthesis-free adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > predicate or propositional logic > [noun] > mathematical or symbolic logic > Polish school of symbolic logic > symbols parenthesis1880 incomplete symbol1910 stroke1925 horseshoe1926 Sheffer('s) stroke1932 hook1967 tilde1979 1880 C. S. Peirce in Amer. Jrnl. Math. 3 57 By junction-marks will be meant, in case the parenthesis {follows/precedes} the third letter, the {first/second} mark of the symbol of the interior operation and the {second/first} mark of the symbol of the exterior operation. 1918 C. I. Lewis Surv. Symbolic Logic iv. 233 For any function of one variable we here omit any parenthesis around the variable. 1940 W. V. Quine Math. Logic i. 40 The parenthesis notation formulated at the beginning of the section is retained. 1976 H. Leblanc Truth-value Semantics i. 11 When no ambiguity threatens, we shall omit the outer parentheses of conditionals, conjunctives..and biconditionals. 1990 L. Wall & R. L. Schwartz Programming Perl iii. 80 If any list operator..is followed by a left parenthesis as the next token on the same line, the operator and arguments within parentheses are taken to be of highest precedence. 2006 N. B. Dale & J. A. McCormick ADA Plus Data Struct. v. 342 When a right parenthesis is encountered, the stack is repeatedly popped, appending the popped operators to the result string. 3. figurative. An interval, an interlude, a hiatus. ΘΚΠ the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > period of time between events or interval waya1300 distancec1330 interstition1390 spacea1400 pastimea1513 vacance1533 intermission?1566 vacation1567 intervallum1574 interim1579 between-timea1586 wem1599 parenthesis1600 intermedium1611 betweena1616 fore-while?1615 interpolation1615 vacancya1616 interval1616 interstitium1624 slatcha1625 interspace1629 intermissa1633 between-spacea1641 interregnum1659 intervalea1661 interlapse1666 interlude1751 in-between1815 lapse1817 intermezzo1851 meanwhile1872 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor iii. iii. sig. Kiv^v I ne're knew Tabacco taken as a parenthesis before. View more context for this quotation 1654 R. Codrington tr. Justinus Hist. iii. 62 In the Parenthesis of time whiles the Infant grew up, he..made Laws for the Spartans. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 131 Charles..gives me an account, interrupted by many a sweet parenthesis of kisses, of the success of his measures. 1796 C. Burney Mem. Life Metastasio II. 162 Rural amusements usually serve as a parenthesis to music. 1899 S. A. Brooke Eng. Lit. 152 That parenthesis of bad government and national tumult which filled the years between the death of Aldfrith..and the renewed peace and order under Ceolwulf. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 651 Infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years..of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity. 1989 A. Burgess Any Old Iron ii. 95 The war's..a parenthesis. A mad life in brackets. 2011 A. McLean tr. A. Suárez in tr. J. Cercas Anat. of Moment (2012) vi. 128 I don't want the democratic system of coexistence to be, once again, a parenthesis in the history of Spain. 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