intersentence

English

Etymology

inter- +‎ sentence

Adjective

intersentence (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of intersentential: between sentences.
    Antonym: intrasentence
    • 2012, Susana Draper, Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America‎, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 138:
      The architecture of the text sets up an impossible frontier between Chile and the non-Chilean, by using intrasentence punctuation such as commas and parentheses but by being incapable of using the intersentence punctum, the period, as if doing so would echo the earlier image of the estate workers taking over the house itself.
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