A great majority of them are those whose meanings can be easily deduced from the literal definition of their parts.

"Someone with a literal definition of the word hardware?"

The literal definition of the Arabic word I'tikaf is to stay in a particular place.

It also includes the word's literal definition of being polite and considerate of others (Organ et al., 2006).

And they most emphatically did not interface, except, to use a quaintly literal definition, to meet face to face.

Unnerving in its literal definition, for all bodily sensation was absent.

A "singer of stitched words" is a literal definition of a rhapsode.

"Band geek" is, in a literal definition, a person obsessed with playing band music.

Her translation is a book within a book, the difference between literal definition and literary dimension.

When someone explained what the literal definition was, the conversation got into intercourse, but I didn't know what that was.