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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

asyndetically en · ADV

Etymology

From asyndetic + -ally. Equivalent to a- + syndetically or to asyndesis or asyndeton + -ical + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rhetoric) In an asyndetic way. ▸ Expressed without conjunctions or with conjunctions purposefully omitted.
    • When the temporal clause precedes the main clause, the main clause can be connected asyndetically or by ወ- wa-. 2021, Joseph Tropper, Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee, Classical Ethiopic: A Grammar of Gəˁəz § 6.5.5
  2. (not-comparable) In an asyndetic way. ▸ Demonstrating asyndesis, expressed with a seeming inability or diminished capacity to connect ideas.

Translations (2)

pl asyndetycznie (without use of conjunctions) · fi asyndeettisesti (without use of conjunctions)