What is a word which is joined to another so closely as to lose its proper accent, as the pronoun thee in prithee (pray thee) called?
enclitic — A word which is joined to another so closely as to lose its proper accent, as the pronoun thee in prithee (pray thee). (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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