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Definition of Formatives
1. formative [n] - See also: formative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Formatives
Literary usage of Formatives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"These particles seem originally to have been the formatives of verbal nouns, and
the verbs to ... In Tamil, in which these formatives are most largely used ..."
2. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"These particles seem originally to have been the formatives of verbal nouns, ...
In Tamil, in which these formatives are most largely used and most fully ..."
3. Mithridates Minor, Or, An Essay on Language by Henry Welsford (1848)
"On the formatives or Terminations of the Greek Verb. This subject could never
have remained covered with so thick a veil of mystery, during so long a period ..."
4. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1840)
"which form no less than 25000 characters, the great mas« of the language ;* the;
are (he principal formatives, which, like prepositions, particles, ..."
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