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Definition of Immediate constituent
1. Noun. A constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Immediate Constituent
Literary usage of Immediate constituent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Study of Rocks and Guide to the Museum Collection by Lazarus Fletcher (1895)
"An immediate constituent, if crystallised, may be either complete or incomplete
... When an immediate constituent is examined, it is generally found to be, ..."
2. An Introduction to the Study of Rocks by Lazarus Fletcher (1898)
"An immediate constituent, if crystallised, may be either Case VII. complete or
... When an immediate constituent is examined, it is generally found to be, ..."
3. Elements of Natural Philosophy by Ernst Gottfried Fischer, Jean-Baptiste Biot (1827)
"These substances are, therefore, the remote constituent principles of the saline
solution, and the immediate constituent principles of sulphate of soda ..."
4. A View of the Constitution of the United States of America by William Rawle (1829)
"... appointed becomes an officer of the United States, not of the state which
sends him, and he is not politically responsible to his immediate constituent. ..."
5. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1861)
"... and the high moral and religious character which he sustained in nil the
relations of life, had endeared him not merely to his immediate constituent?, ..."
6. A Treatise on Human Physiology by John Call Dalton (1882)
"Lime phosphate, for instance, is an immediate constituent of the bony tissue,
but phosphoric acid is not so, for it is not present under its own form, ..."
7. The New-England Magazine by Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin (1831)
"He was called to serve the state as a representative by the almost unanimous
voice of his immediate constituent*. His usefulness was not limited to the mere ..."
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