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Definition of Expletory
1. a. Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word.
Definition of Expletory
1. Adjective. Serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expletory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expletory
Literary usage of Expletory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. First Platform of International Law by Edward Shepherd Creasy (1876)
"expletory and Attributive Justice.. INTERNATIONAL LAW is the System of Moral
Prin- General de- ciples and Positive Rules by which the conduct of States, ..."
2. Grotius on the Rights of War and Peace: An Abriged Translation by Hugo Grotius, William Whewell (1853)
"1 A Jurai Claim, or Right proper, belongs to expletory Justice, or Justice proper.
... 2 Aristotle says that expletory Justice proceeds by arithmetical ..."
3. Hugonis Grotii de jure belli et pacis libri tres by Hugo Grotius, Jean Barbeyrac (1853)
"De Jure Nat. by expletory justice, but according to geometrical proportion ; if
thero is only one person fit for an office, it is by attributive justice ..."
4. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"It is true, the word " successor" favoured these seizures; except that be thought
an expletory word put in out of form, but still to be limited to an estate ..."
5. The Life of Charles Lamb by Edward Verrall Lucas (1907)
"imperfect sense, as if it had been some Devil's Litany, with the expletory yell—'
and I WILL, too.'—In his gentler moods, ..."
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