وَتَقْلِيدًاand an imitation

Example sentences

• وَمَيْلًا إِلَى عَادَاتِهِمْ وَتَقْلِيدًا لِكُبَرَائِهِمْ

  and a leaning toward their customs and an imitation of their elders.

  وَتَقْلِيدًا — and an imitation. A wa- 'and' fused to a verbal noun in the object-style ending, 'and an imitation', a third motive parallel to the leaning and the following. The wa- coordinates it into the list of drivers; the ending marks it as a reason-of-action. It heads its own 'of' phrase completed next.

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