Meaning of present participial | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or relating to the present participle.

Examples

“The preſent participial termination Ende is, in modern Engliſh, always converted to ing.”

“L. uoluntās, free will. Formed, with suffix -tās, from a present participial stem *uolunt-, a variant of uolent-, from uolens, willing, from uolo, I will; infin. uelle.”

“Furthermore, numerous dangling modifiers in present participial phrases dominate the textual landscape of Lundy Martin’s poetry, rendering the text’s grammar of suffering as an ongoing present of spatio-temporal, both abstract and visceral, arrangements of bodies which are marked or boxed racially and genderwise, and at the same time become entangled in a proprioceptive approximation towards negativity and non-identity.”

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