grammatical meaning
the meaning of an inflectional morpheme or of some other syntactic device, as word order.
Origin of grammatical meaning
1- Compare lexical meaning.
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How to use grammatical meaning in a sentence
But this is not all; when I had examined this passage attentively, I found it also to be lacking in grammatical meaning.
My Religion | Leo TolstoyTowards that end, discrimination of the usual or grammatical meaning of words was indispensable.
The mere grammatical meaning of the word 'martyr' breaks into pieces at a blow the whole notion of the privacy of goodness.
The Defendant | G.K. ChestertonThe barbarous Latin of the Vita is so uncouth and unformed as to convey no certain grammatical meaning.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume I of II) | Henry Osborn Taylor
British Dictionary definitions for grammatical meaning
the meaning of a word by reference to its function within a sentence rather than to a world outside the sentence: Compare lexical meaning, function word
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