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Of a word or phrase: serving merely to fill out a sentence or a metrical line without adding anything to the sense; (also) serving as a grammatical…
That makes good a deficiency; supplementary; = suppletive, adj. 1. With of, to. Now chiefly Law.
Serving to fill up or complete something; unnecessary; (of a word or expression) serving to fill out a sentence or a metrical line; = expletive, adj.…