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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 193 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ADJUNCT (from
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Lat. ad, to, and jungere, to join)  , that which is joined on to another, not an essential
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part, and inferior to it in mind or
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function, but which nevertheless amplifies or modifies it . Adverbs and adjectives are adjuncts to the words they qualify . Learning, says
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Shakespeare, is an "
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adjunct to our-self " (Love's Labour's Lost, IV. iii . 314) .

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