1. a word pronounced with very little emphasis, so that it becomes part of the word before, for example ‘n’t’ in ‘can’t’ Compare : proclitic
   Word Originmid 17th cent.: via late Latin from Greek enklitikos, from enklinein ‘lean on’, from en- ‘in, on’ + klinein ‘to lean’.

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