37 adjectives to describe antecedent

Examples of joint antecedents: "In unity consist the welfare and security OF every society."Ib., p. 182.

A singular antecedent with the adjective many, sometimes admits a plural pronoun, but never in the same clause; as, "Hard has been the fate of many a great genius, that while they have conferred immortality on others, they have wanted themselves some friend to embalm their names to posterity.

That young man's infatuation for Maisie Fortescue, a lady of undoubted charm but very doubtful antecedents, who had astonished the London and Dublin music-halls with her extravagant dances, was too well known and too old-established to encourage any hopes in other quarters.

He was the typical rastaquouère, a man of finished manners, and unknown antecedents, a foreigner, apparently rich, obviously accomplished, but with that indefinable air which bespeaks the adventurer; and which gives society as fair a warning as if the man wore a placard on his shoulder with the word cave.

How does a pronoun agree with disjunct antecedents?

that from the combined influence of her historical antecedents and her national psychology this fatality was to be expected.

[Constant antecedent].

In the narrower sense of the term, miracle,that is, a consequent presented to the outward senses without an adequate antecedent, ejusdem generis,it is not only false but detractory from the Christian religion.

Hahn is a man of shady antecedents, probably clever enough to know as well as anybody how to dispose of such plunderif it be possible to dispose of it at all; also, Hahn hasn't been to Claridge's to-day, although he had an appointment to take money.

In trades and factorieson railways, tooan applicant for employment is not only questioned, but has to produce evidence as to his immediate antecedents at least.

Now the Infinite (Ens Infinitum or Entia Infinita, according to the point of view in which we look at it) is a generic word, including all these supposed indeterminate antecedents; and including therefore, of course, many contradictory agencies.

On the contrary, we are in the very heart of science; tragedy to the modern is not [Greek: tuchae], but a thing of cause and effect, invariable antecedent and invariable consequent.

And she could not gain anything by what he suffered, with his dangerous nature, his ungovernable jealousy, his possibly involved and unknown antecedents; what was to become of him, in case he could not have this girl of whom six weeks ago he had not heard?

He had even been to church with Miss Duryea, temporarily absenting himself for that purpose of a Sunday morning from the steam-heated flat whereunknown to her, of coursehe lived with his white wife, Emma Pratt, a lady of highly miscellaneous antecedents.

7. Or Contingent, inward, antecedent, nearest.

In relative clauses depending upon a negative antecedent, the second part of the negative (pas) in the relative clause is generally omitted.

Bethmann-Hollweg, immortalised by one fatal phrase, has been at last hunted from office by the extremists whom he sought to restrain, and Dr. Michaelis, a second-rate administrator, of negligible antecedents, succeeds to his uneasy chair, while the Kaiser maintains his pose as the friend of the people.

I have heard of a more interesting reason; namely, that the historic position of the young, relatively to the time in which they are placed, is in some sort falsified, unless they have gone through a training in the current beliefs of their age: unless they have undergone that, they miss, as it were, some of the normal antecedents.

'That is because everything in your house is so confoundedly handsome and expensive,' retorted Sir George, who did not very much care about being called George, tout court, by a person of Mr. Smithson's obscure antecedents, but who had to endure the familiarity for reasons known only to himself and Mr. Smithson.

For the sake of completeness and uniformity in parsing, it is, I think, expedient to apply the foregoing rule not only to those pronouns which have obvious antecedents expressed, but also to such as are not accompanied by the nouns for which they stand.

In the person of Dr. Slop, the grotesque man-midwife, who was to have assisted, but missed assisting, at Tristram's entry into the world, the good people of York were not slow to recognize the physical peculiarities and professional antecedents of Dr. Burton, the local accoucheur, whom Archdeacon Sterne had arrested as a Jacobite.

I secretly purchased a quantity of paste jewelrybracelets, tiaras, pendants and such like glittering trashand when everything was ready I engaged two new servants of decidedly queer antecedents.

He had attached himself to a lady of somewhat lower social standing than his own, of rather questionable antecedents, and whom the world accepted to a certain extent on sufferance, as it were, and under protest, yet welcomed her cordially enough, nevertheless.

Aside from his clothing, everything about him had an exotic tang, though what precisely his racial antecedents might have been was rather a riddle; a habit so thoroughly European went oddly with the hints of Asiatic strain which one thought to detect in his lineaments.

"'Liver-rot' is a disease of quite romantic antecedents.

37 adjectives to describe  antecedent