parataxic

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌpæɹəˈtæksɪk/

Adjective

parataxic (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to parataxis.
    • 1976 December 18, Rudy Kikel, “The Doomsday Book by the Jewish Comedian”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 14:
      Taking the breath of life, I suspect, from the convulsive sputterings of Allen Ginsberg (the Ginsberg of "Kaddish," to which homage is paid in its pages), the parataxic reportage of John Wieners ("i see the poet occasionally...and never did find my copy/ of measure"), and the stuttered exclamations of John Giorno, []