present participial
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
7
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to the present participle.
Example Sentences
- "The preſent participial termination Ende is, in modern Engliſh, always converted to ing."
- "L. uoluntās, free will. Formed, with suffix -tās, from a present participial stem *uolunt-, a variant of uolent-, from uolens, willing, from uolo, I will; infin. uelle."
- "Furthermore, numerous dangling modifiers in present participial phrases dominate the textual landscape of Lundy Martin’s poetry, rendering the text’s grammar of suffering as an ongoing present of spatio-temporal, both abstract and visceral, arrangements of bodies which are marked or boxed racially and genderwise, and at the same time become entangled in a proprioceptive approximation towards negativity and non-identity."
Inflected Forms
more present participial (comparative)
most present participial (superlative)
present-participial (alternative)