conjunction

Definition

The act of joining, or condition of being joined.

Etymology

From Old French conjonction, from Latin coniūnctiō (“joining”), from coniungere (“to join”).

Example Sentences

• "[…] Dr. Minchin in return was quite sure that man was not a mere machine or a fortuitous conjunction of atoms; […]"
• "About them all there is that sort of stiff quaint unreality, that conjunction of the grotesque, and even of a certain bourgeois snugness, with passionate contortion and horror, that is so characteristic of Gothic art."
• "A comma is placed between short members of compound sentences, connected by and, but, for, nor, or, because, whereas, that expressing purpose (so that, in order that), and other conjunctions."

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