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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
That which, or one who, hangs on to, relies on, or is dependent upon another; a dependent..
He was one of Queen Mary's Papists, and now he is one of Queen Elizabeth's Protestants ; he was an onhanger of the Abbot of Abingdon, and now he lives as master of the manor-house.
The seemingly widespread belief that aphasia is almost exclusively an onhanger of the apoplectic state seems to necessitate emphasizing the fact that some.
The form is has no place in these sentences and seems to have been imported into them as an onhanger of it.
Use onhanger when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Onhanger means That which, or one who, hangs on to, relies on, or is dependent upon another; a dependent..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He was one of Queen Mary's Papists, and now he is one of Queen Elizabeth's Protestants ; he was an onhanger of the Abbot of Abingdon, and now he lives as master of the manor-house.
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