| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| This obsolete spelling of the adjective complete suggests an air of antiquity that seems to please some of those who name things, usually books for which they wish to claim compleat authority, as in Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler (1653), where this form of the adjective got its start. Use such quaintnesses only with great restraint. | 1 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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