单词 | quotativeness |
释义 | quotativenessn. The quality of being quotative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > fondness for quotations quotativeness1879 the mind > language > speech > narration > direct speech > [noun] > quotative word or quotativeness quotative1893 reportative1950 quotativeness1957 1879 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel 10 May He's got it. He's got it bad. Verbosity, voluminosity, verbiage and quotativeness. 1886 G. B. Shaw in Pall Mall Gaz. 26 July 5/1 A certain facetiousness and quotativeness. 1957 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxviii. 27 The quotativeness of the echo suggests that it be classed as a frag Q. 1999 C. Bartels Intonation Eng. Statements & Questions v. 136 Bolinger notes that the same constraint of quotativeness observed here for if applies to that. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1879 |
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