complemental
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of the nature of a complement; completing.
adj
adj
Of the nature of a ceremony that is not essential but accessory; ceremonial; ceremonious; formal.
Obsolete
Example Sentences
- "[I]t is an errour worſe than hereſie, to adore the complementall and circumſtantiall piece of felicity, and undervalue thoſe perfections and eſſential points of happineſſe, wherein we reſemble our Maker."
- "I vvill make a complementall aſſault vpon him for my buſineſſe ſeeth's."
- "I have no skill in ceremonious letters which have no other ſubſtance, but a faire contexture of complementall phraſes and curteous wordes."
- "For if the Saxon, (our mother tongue) did complaine; as iuſtly (I doubt) in this point may the Daughter: Languages, for the moſt part in tearmes of Art and Erudition, retayning their originall pouertie, and rather growing rich and abundant, in complementall phraſes and ſuch froth."