Definition of Expletives

1. Noun. (plural of expletive) ¹

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Definition of Expletives

1. expletive [n] - See also: expletive

Lexicographical Neighbors of Expletives

explanatory
explanatory fiction
explanatory style
explant
explantation
explantations
explanted
explanting
explants
explement
explementary angles
explements
expletion
expletive
expletively
expletives (current term)
expletory
explicability
explicable
explicableness
explicably
explicandum
explicate
explicated
explicates
explicating
explication
explication de texte
explications
explicative

Literary usage of Expletives

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Plea for the Queen's English: Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling by Henry Alford (1881)
"To prohibit the use of expletives altogether, would perhaps seem hard. ... For these reasons, the occasional use of expletives must be tolerated ; and that ..."

2. Reading Book of the Turkish Language, with a Grammar and Vocabulary by William Burckhardt Barker (1854)
"OF expletives. It is difficult in English to form an exact idea of an expletive. The Germans have their words dock and awh, which approach nearest to the ..."

3. English Lessons by Ada Van Stone Harris (1912)
"When so used, they are called expletives. (Expletive means filling out. ... Find or write ten sentences beginning with the expletives there or it. ..."

4. A Grammar of the Latin Language from Plautus to Suetonius by Henry John Roby (1874)
"... though not grammatically dependent on another verb or sentence, e, g. on such expletives as die mihi, loquere, cedo, responde, ex- pedi, narra, Tide; ..."

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