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Definition of Substantives
1. substantive [n] - See also: substantive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Substantives
Literary usage of Substantives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners : with an by Lindley Murray (1805)
"Proper names or substantives, are the names appropriated to individuals : as,
... Common names or substantives, stand for kinds containing many sorts, ..."
2. English Grammar: Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners : with an by Lindley Murray (1805)
"substantives are either proper OF common. Proper names or substantives, are the
names appropriated to individuals : as, George, London, Thames. ..."
3. The Masai: Their Language and Folklore by Alfred Claud Hollis (1905)
"substantives. Many substantives are derived from verbal roots. ... substantives are
also sometimes formed by simply affixing letters to the verbal root. ..."
4. Latin Philology by Clarence L. Meader, Manson Alexander Stewart, Frederick Tyndall Swan, Henry Herbert Armstrong (1910)
"Caesar has as large a percentage of substantives in -tio as has Varro in his De
re rustica ... Of the 64 substantives in -tio used by Varro (De re rustica), ..."
5. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"IRREGULAR substantives 249. The gender in the sing, and in the pi. may not be the
... are substantives having two different stems, but a common nom. sing. ..."
6. An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language: Crowned by the French Academy by Auguste Brachet (1882)
"Several substantives of this class, such as sanglier, linge, coursier, bouclier,
were adjectives in Old French (as may be seen under these words in the ..."
7. Historical Outlines of English Syntax by Leon Kellner (1913)
"Adjectives used as substantives. § 236. The adjectives (answering to the ...
substantives named after quality. § 237. The quality of a thing is so striking, ..."
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