Definitions
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- adjective Mentioned previously.
- noun The one or ones mentioned previously.
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- adjective literary
mentioned above
Etymologies
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Examples
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Second, if you are perfect in all aspects save one, namely the abovementioned quality of “imperfection”, then you are almost perfect, virtually perfect, or approaching perfection.
j-gan Diary Entry j-gan 2006
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Butcher or any one else whatever may conduce to her comfort and consolation, as it has long been my intention with the entire concurrence of my wife to remit a yearly or monthly allowance for the purpose abovementioned; and which I hope to explain at large immediately.
Letter 105 2009
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It took me years on my own to learn the abovementioned lessons (and I'm still learning).
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Many landowners will be hesitant to climb aboard for the abovementioned reasons (and I'm sure many others).
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It took me years on my own to learn the abovementioned lessons (and I'm still learning).
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Itsura Manga - this wonderful site also has interviews with several of the abovementioned artists. dA PHILIPPINES-IFCA
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Still, for all the abovementioned reasons and more, Steve Jobs is my hero, my inspiration, and sadly today, the cause of my heartbreak.
Shelley Ross: Steve Job Resigns, An Era Ends and My Heart Is Broken Shelley Ross 2011
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I really felt like I needed a break from the abovementioned chunkster, so I whipped on through BOGUS TO BUBBLY yesterday.
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Of the abovementioned Latino films, you can screen the following online:
S.J. Main: Emerging Latino Voices Get To The Point: Short Films at Sundance S.J. Main 2012
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Abovementioned is an acceptable compound word (“the abovementioned qualities”), synonymous with aforementioned, but better to do without either, and invert the last three words: “to the qualities mentioned above”.
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