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The phrase of a…nature, with an adjective before nature, should be used sparingly and only when the adjective by itself will not serve for some reason. For example, a theologian of an enigmatic nature could easily be rephrased as an enigmatic theologian. In other cases, kind or type could be used more effectively than nature:

• These results, minor as they are, are of a nature that has not been achieved in any other use of the computer for style analysis in music —Computer & Humanities, 1970.

• The men are accused of conspiring between January 1 and July 1 to cause explosions of a nature likely to endanger life or cause serious injury —Western Mail, 2007.


Modern English usage. 2014.

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