Meaning of prænominal | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [B2]

Examples

“The name of Shakespeare perisheth not; but let oblivion eliminate the prænominal William.”

“Thus, in nouns, we have the various distinctions of quality, comparison, gender, number, figure, case; of prænomen, nomen, cognomen, agnomen; of appellative and proper; of corporeal, incorporeal, radical, derivative, compositive, denominative, diminutive, homonymous, synonymous; with others, adjectival or prænominal, interminable as those of the ancient grammarians.”

“The patronymical name of the maid / Was so completely overlaid / With a long prænominal cover, / That if each additional proper noun / Was laid, with additional emphasis, down, / Miss Susan was ‘done uncommonly Brown,’ / The moment her christ’ning was over!”

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