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Meaning of

subjectless

in English:


subjectless

Pronunciation

/ˈsəbdʒɛktləs/


adjective

See

subject


‘The interpretation of Dutch art had been strongly conditioned by Eugene Fromentin’s famous view of this painting as essentially subjectless.’


‘A few newspapers do use subjectless tensed headlines – I’ve seen it in the Chicago area – but most do not.’


‘The word “sorry” can be used with a preposition phrase headed by for where the preposition has as its complement a subjectless gerund-participial clause or a noun phrase denoting an act.’


‘Thus Brentano’s theory draws a sharp line between judgement and predication in recognizing judgements with a non-predicational content and in taking subjectless sentences at face value.’


‘We might add that this subjectless experience is what can only be called ‘transcendental’.’

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