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fragmentary

[frag-muhn-ter-ee]

Origin

adjective

consisting of or reduced to fragments; broken; disconnected; incomplete: fragmentary evidence; fragmentary remains.

Origin:
1605–15; fragment + -ary

Related forms

frag·men·tar·i·ly, adverb

frag·men·tar·i·ness, noun

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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fragmentary (ˈfræɡməntərɪ, -trɪ)

—*adj*
	Also: fragmental made up of fragments; disconnected; incomplete

'fragmentarily

—*adv*

'fragmentariness

—n

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Word Origin & History

fragmentary

1835 (with an isolated use in Donne from 1611), from fragment + -ary.

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"Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are bon mots, and not parts of natural discourse; childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature,—being some curiosity or oddity, designedly not in harmony with nature, and purposely framed to excite surprise, as jugglers do by concealing their means."

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