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flexionless en · ADJ

Etymology

From flexion + -less.

Meanings

1. (dated, not-comparable) inflectionless
   • [S]ome scholars have inclined to the view that the mixing of Scandinavian dialects and those of the Anglo-Saxons produced a kind of creolized (flexionless) English as the two sets of people sought to understand each other by ignoring inflexions[.] 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 2:

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