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dissertational en · ADJ

Etymology

From dissertation + -al.

Meanings

1. Resembling or pertaining to dissertations.
   • Charlotte's dissertational research focused on children's fairy tales and during her appointment as an instructor at Dresden Technical College, she continued her systematic research of literature, focusing on adolescent psychology […] 1992, Sheldon Gardner, Red Vienna and the Golden Age of Psychology, 1918-1938, page 201:
   • Counting words or lines compromises comparability across constitutions since the diversity of languages and juridical cultures means there are different literary styles, so that some constitutions are more dissertational […] 2016, Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, New Constitutionalism in Latin America: Promises and Practices:
   • Its only value consists in some dissertational notes at the end on the literature of charity, population, pauperism, political economy, and Protestantism. 1852 July 14, “Contemporary Literature of America”, in The Westminster Review, page 154:

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