Meanings
comparative more aberratory · superlative most aberratory
- rareOf or pertaining to aberration; aberrant.
There was enough of her family in Fedora for that last to sound improbable—another of those things to be assuaged, a sort of unaccountable temperamentality; not as bad as a drug addict but impolitely aberratory.
p. 1932 (written), Zelda Fitzgerald, “Other Names for Roses”, in The Collected Writings, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, published 1991, →ISBN, page 3661 more example
This was so acceptable an improvement on either “King Caucus” or the erratic and aberratory method of legislative or mass-meeting nominations that the parties adopted it for the Presidency as well as the Vice Presidency.
1934 September 21, Charles Willis Thompson, “1934 and Political Change”, in The Commonweal, volume 20, number 21, New York, page 479
Origin
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