parenthetic

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That nearly 100-year-old publication instructs sentence drafters to “enclose parenthetic expressions between commas” and to “place a comma before and or but introducing an independent clause.”

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2014

Sir: The clue to their success is tucked unobtrusively into one parenthetic expression that you use: "Russian is more precisely phonetic than English."

From Time Magazine Archive

This again for a moment hushed her, and they were both too grave now for parenthetic pity.

From The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by James, Henry

"Hardly to be called his inheritance, I think," said Percival, in a parenthetic way, "if he was the child of one Vincenza Vasari, and not of the Luttrells."

From Under False Pretences A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline

In it the second Rhyming Doublet is divided by a kind of parenthetic Rhythmic Solitaire.

From Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Talley, Thomas Washington