21. The definition already cited is further inaccurate, because it ignores the fact that, under the laws of phrasing, many words can be and are omitted altogether - not even indicated by any stenographic expedient such as "proximity," but suggested or implied to the mind of the reader by the sense or context only. Thus the phrase Jesus of Nazareth is not a joining of the three words constituting the word-group; for one of them - of - is altogether omitted in the writing, to be supplied in reading by the sense or context. Phrases of this sort, in the writing of which there is an ellipsis of certain words - words being absolutely left out without other indication than what the sense or context gives - may be called elliptic phrases.