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Definition of Adnouns
1. adnoun [n] - See also: adnoun
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adnouns
Literary usage of Adnouns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Grammar of the French Tongue: With a Preface, Containing an Essay on the by Louis Chambaud, A. J. Des Carrieres (1846)
"Of common adnouns these sixteen generally come before the noun: ban, good, ...
Most other adnouns are almost indifferently placed before or after the noun; ..."
2. Archaeologia Americana: Transactions and Collections of the American by American Antiquarian Society, Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) (1836)
"adnouns have the animate and inanimate forms, and agree with the leading ...
The inanimate form of adnouns ends in i or c ; the animate form in es or csu. ..."
3. Systematic Education: Or, Elementary Instruction in the Various Departments by William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter (1822)
"Those to which our definition will apply, and to which alone the term should be
appropriated, are principally adnouns with or without nouns connected with ..."
4. A Universal Language, Formed on Philosophical and Analogical Principles by James Ruggles (1829)
"adnouns are words added to nouns to express some quality. They are formed from
radices in the same manner as nouns,x>mitting to insert the pronominal letter ..."
5. The youth's spelling, pronouncing, and explanatory theological dictionary of by Emerson Dowson (1818)
"So the adjectives, or adnouns, good, white, do not convey any perfect idea to the
... Many adnouns are derived from nouns by the addition of y, as, wealthy, ..."
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