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apposition

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apposition

In grammar, the placing of a noun or noun phrase next to another that refers to the same thing (‘We'll take the easiest route, the east ridge, to the top’). The word or phrase in apposition is marked off from its antecedent (to which it refers) by a pair of commas.
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A man at the very lowest point of the social scale was easier and more agreeable for the fallen gentleman to encounter than a person at any of the intermediate degrees; and, moreover, as Clifford's young manhood had been lost, he was fond of feeling himself comparatively youthful, now, in apposition with the patriarchal age of Uncle Venner.
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