present participial

adjective

Of or relating to the present participle.

Meanings

adjectivepresent participial (not comparable)

alternative present-participial

  1. not comparablegrammarOf or relating to the present participle.

    The preſent participial termination Ende is, in modern Engliſh, always converted to ing.

    1805, J[ohn] Horne Tooke, Επεα Πτεροεντα [Epea Pteroenta]. Or, The Diversions of Purley., part II, London: […] [F]or the Author, at J. Johnson’s, […], page 215
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    L. uoluntās, free will. Formed, with suffix -tās, from a present participial stem *uolunt-, a variant of uolent-, from uolens, willing, from uolo, I will; infin. uelle.

    1910, Walter W[illiam] Skeat, “VOLUNTARY”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, new (4th) revised and enlarged edition, Oxford, Oxon: At the Clarendon Press, page 695, column 2

    Furthermore, numerous dangling modifiers in present participial phrases dominate the textual landscape of Lundy Martin’s poetry, rendering the text’s grammar of suffering as an ongoing present of spatio-temporal, both abstract and visceral, arrangements of bodies which are marked or boxed racially and genderwise, and at the same time become entangled in a proprioceptive approximation towards negativity and non-identity.

    2017, Marius Henderson, “‘Here is the trash heap, nothing there except a muted wailing’:' Dithering in Negativity and the Failure to Move On”, in Katharina Motyl, Regina Schober, editors, The Failed Individual: Amid Exclusion, Resistance, and the Pleasure of Non-Conformity, Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, →ISBN, section III (Failure as Resistance/Failure as Pleasure), page 233
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