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Definition of Finals
1. final [n] - See also: final
Lexicographical Neighbors of Finals
Literary usage of Finals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Sanskrit Grammar: Including Both the Classical Language, and the Older by William Dwight Whitney (1913)
"Stem-finals altered In Composition. 1815. Transfers to an s-form of ... from other
less common finals, which are not rare In Independent use, are especially ..."
2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"These dictionaries are first divided into four parts, corresponding to the four
tones, and subservient to these is the arrangement of the finals. ..."
3. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1914)
"Indeed, final consonants, which are found constantly in English (as sounds they
form 93 per cent, of the finals) are, for the most part, wanting in Italian; ..."
4. What Handwriting Indicates: An Analytical Graphology by John Rexford (1904)
"As nearly every person shows a streak of selfishness at one time or another,
caution should be observed in declaring a writer selfish unless all the finals ..."
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