: resembling a pronoun in identifying or specifying without describing
the pronominal adjective this in this dog
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Example Sentences
the pronominal adjective “this” in “this dog”
Recent Examples on the WebThrough perspectival shifts, pronominal slippage and shout-outs to cinema, poetry and of course music, Mercier allows the duo’s fears and displaced ambitions to turn into one another in revelatory, oneiric and, ultimately, disturbing ways. Lisa Russ Spaar, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
Word History
Etymology
Late Latin pronominalis, from Latin pronomin-, pronomen