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grammatical meaning
noun
- the meaning of an inflectional morpheme or of some other syntactic device, as word order.
grammatical meaning
noun
- the meaning of a word by reference to its function within a sentence rather than to a world outside the sentence Compare lexical meaning function word
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Word History and Origins
Origin of grammatical meaning1
First recorded in 1760–70
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Example Sentences
While Mr Pitskiver stepped up stairs, Snipe was going over in his own mind the different grammatical meanings of the words, "I'll give it you."
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The mere grammatical meaning of the word 'martyr' breaks into pieces at a blow the whole notion of the privacy of goodness.
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"This is neither the obvious nor grammatical meaning of his words."
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You must remember that these articles are not to be subjected to your own sense or comment, but must be taken in the literal and grammatical meaning.
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