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- noun Plural form of
copulative .
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Examples
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I have quoted Mr. Rodwell who affects the Arabic formula, omitting the normal copulatives.
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To discard the copulatives for the sake of energy was a rule laid down by the best ancient critics.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Cicero has observed that an oration may be said to be disjointed, when the copulatives are omitted, and strokes of sentiment follow one another in quick succession.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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_Particular attention to the use of copulatives, relatives, and all the particles employed for transition and connexion, is required_.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
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I press in here, sir, amongst the rest of the country copulatives, to swear, and to forswear, according as marriage binds and blood breaks.
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I have quoted Mr. Rodwell who affects the Arabic formula, omitting the normal copulatives.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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I can by no means approve of studied abbreviations, and leaving out the needful copulatives of speech in trading letters; they are to an extreme affected; no beauty to the style, but, on the contrary, a deformity of the grossest nature.
The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) Daniel Defoe 1696
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"These are the very copulatives, diphthongs, and adjectives of Hooker, Milton, and
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 Alexander Pope 1716
Gammerstang commented on the word copulatives
(pl. noun) - (1) Persons intending to marry; Twelfth Night.
--C.H. Herford's Glossary of the Works of Shakespeare, 1902
(2) "I presse in heere sir, amongst the rest of the country copulatives."
--William Shakespeare's As You Like It, c.1600
January 15, 2018