Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In grammar, apposition, or the placing in the same case of two or more nouns which explain or characterize one another.
  • noun The setting side by side of things of equivalent grade: used by some philologists of monosyllabic or isolating language.
  • noun In rhetoric, a parenthetical notice, generally of something to be afterward expanded.
  • noun In the Gr. Ch., a prayer uttered by a bishop over converts or catechumens.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Gram.) The placing of two or more nouns in the same case; apposition.
  • noun (Rhet.) A parenthetical notice, usually of matter to be afterward expanded.
  • noun (Print.) The matter contained within brackets.
  • noun (Eccl.) A commendatory prayer.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun grammar The placing of two or more nouns in the same case; apposition.
  • noun rhetoric A parenthetical notice, usually of matter to be afterward expanded.
  • noun printing The matter contained within brackets.
  • noun religion A commendatory prayer.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Ancient Greek παράθεσις (parathesis, "putting beside").

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Examples

  • Anyway, good review, and I apologize for the excessive use of parathesis in this comment.

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  • I know you have to escape the parathesis but it produces:

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  • Good luck to all. after 7 months of constantly changing symptoms, MRI'S x5, admittance to a neurological hospital finally diagnosed with T.M. Like a lot of you my inital symptom was a very sharp stabbing pain in my groin which was unbearable, over the next two weeks i developed parathesis in my right leg and foot with a pins and needles sensation.

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  • Good luck to all. after 7 months of constantly changing symptoms, MRI'S x5, admittance to a neurological hospital finally diagnosed with T.M. Like a lot of you my inital symptom was a very sharp stabbing pain in my groin which was unbearable, over the next two weeks i developed parathesis in my right leg and foot with a pins and needles sensation.

    California Literary Review 2009

  • Good luck to all. after 7 months of constantly changing symptoms, MRI'S x5, admittance to a neurological hospital finally diagnosed with T.M. Like a lot of you my inital symptom was a very sharp stabbing pain in my groin which was unbearable, over the next two weeks i developed parathesis in my right leg and foot with a pins and needles sensation.

    California Literary Review 2009

  • Good luck to all. after 7 months of constantly changing symptoms, MRI'S x5, admittance to a neurological hospital finally diagnosed with T.M. Like a lot of you my inital symptom was a very sharp stabbing pain in my groin which was unbearable, over the next two weeks i developed parathesis in my right leg and foot with a pins and needles sensation.

    California Literary Review 2009

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