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nominal sentence

noun

, Grammar.
  1. a sentence consisting of a subject and complement without a linking verb, as Very interesting, those books.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of nominal sentence1

First recorded in 1920–25
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Example Sentences

The former civil servant had her nominal sentence of 87 years halved because she pleaded guilty.

The former civil servant had her nominal sentence of 87 years halved because she pleaded guilty.

The interference of courts of justice with religious opinions had immensely decreased, and it is now reviving; but it is in your Lordship's power to annihilate it by passings nominal sentence on the defendant.

They might make all the difference between a nominal sentence as a first offender and five years' penal servitude as an habitual criminal, to say nothing of police supervision afterwards.

Though, if he can invent for the paramour a German name, he will still receive but a nominal sentence.

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