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Parenthesis   /pərˈɛnθəsɪs/   Listen
Parenthesis

noun
(pl. parentheses)
1.
Either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material.
2.
A message that departs from the main subject.  Synonyms: aside, digression, divagation, excursus.



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"Parenthesis" Quotes from Famous Books



... — N. discontinuity; disjunction &c 44; anacoluthon^; interruption, break, fracture, flaw, fault, crack, cut; gap &c (interval) 198; solution of continuity, caesura; broken thread; parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork; intermission; alternation &c (periodicity) 138; dropping fire. V. be discontinuous &c adj.; alternate, intermit, sputter, stop and start, hesitate. discontinue, pause, interrupt; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... quite well all the spring, and almost all the winter. I don't know when I have been so long well as I have been lately; without a cough or anything else disagreeable. Indeed, if I may place the influenza in a parenthesis, we have all been perfectly well, in spite of our fishing and boating and getting wet three times a day. There is good trout-fishing at the Otter, and the noble river Sid, which, if I liked to stand in it, might ...
— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) • Frederic G. Kenyon

... demper," said the Walrus, complacently. "Dat is no goot also. Come, I show you der vay to der Equador—dat is Germany, too," he added, in parenthesis. "Bud you must haf some glothes first to vare," he cried, looking at the children's scanty garments. ...
— Dick, Marjorie and Fidge - A Search for the Wonderful Dodo • G. E. Farrow

... RULE XI.—A parenthesis should be read more rapidly and in a lower key than the rest of the sentence, and should terminate with the same inflection that next precedes it. If, however, it is complicated, or emphatic, or disconnected from the main subject, the inflections must be governed by the same rules ...
— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

... credit the latter with an inner life and intelligence, more distinctly human than before. Its religion in fact would become MORE 'anthropomorphic' instead of less so; and one sees that this is a process that is inevitable; and inevitable notwithstanding a certain parenthesis in the process, due to obvious elements in our 'Civilization' and to the temporary and fallacious domination of a leaden-eyed so-called 'Science.' According to this view the true evolution of Religion and Man's outlook on the world has proceeded not ...
— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter


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