Definitions
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- noun grammar A noun phrase, introduced as if the subject of a sentence, that is not actually used as such.
- noun rhetoric Intentional use of such a construction.
Etymologies
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From Latin nominativus ("nominative case") + pendens ("hanging, waiting")
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