That broken comb exemplifies the apparently inexhaustible strength of the novel's flotsam, its disjunctive detail which makes nevertheless for tonal coherence.
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Disjunctive
/dɪsˈd͡ʒʌŋktɪv/
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ablativeadjectivaladjectiveadverbadverbialadversative conjunctionalternativeattributivebiodegradablebrokenbroken offchopped-offchoppyconjunctionconjunctive adverbcoordinating conjunctioncopulativecopulative conjunctioncorrelative conjunction
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herky-jerkyincoherentinterjectionintermittentinterruptedirregularjaggedjerkymolderingnoncontinuousnonlinearnonsequentialnonserialnonuniformoptionalparentheticparentheticalpart of speechparticipleparticle
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partingpast participlepatchyperfect participleprepositionpresent participleravagedresolventruinousscrappyseparatingseparativesnatchysolventspasmodicspottysubordinating conjunctionsuspendedunconnectedunjoinedunsuccessiveverbal adjectivevolitionalvoluntaryworn
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The words "but" and "or" are disjunctive conjunctions.
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[…] that the phrase should be articulated in one breath; failing this, Quantz recommends that breath should be taken wherever possible on tied notes, between disjunctive notes of continuous semiquavers or at other equivalent moments.
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An opposition of contrariety is not of purely logical concernment; and a disjunctive syllogism with characters opposed in contrariety, in fact, consists of as many pure disjunctive syllogisms as there are opposing predicates.
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