Definition of "pronominal" [pro•nom•i•nal]

• Of, relating to, or functioning as a pronoun. (adjective)
• Resembling a pronoun, as by specifying a person, place, or thing, while functioning primarily as another part of speech. His in his choice is a pronominal adjective. (adjective)

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• "But we are chiefly concerned with what may be called pronominal variation, in which the word avoided is either a noun or its obvious pronoun substitute."
• "Egyptologists, who had even made its name into a kind of pronominal form."
• "In a wider sense, the phrase refers to any verb form whose grammatical object is a reflexive pronoun, regardless of semantics; such verbs are also referred to as pronominal verbs, especially in grammars of the Romance languages."