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Definition of Intensives
1. intensive [n] - See also: intensive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intensives
Literary usage of Intensives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1897)
"Intensives. In the 'earlier language' there are, according to Whitney (Hoots,
etc.), 105 intensive stems not used later: 21 are common to all periods, ..."
2. A Short Manual of Comparative Philology for Classical Students by Peter Giles (1901)
"These are the forms used sometimes as causatives, intensives m sometimes as
intensives or frequenta- n°' tives.2 The form of the suffix is -tip- with the ..."
3. A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect by David Binning Monro (1891)
"Intensives, expressing actions intensified by repetition. These are generally
reduplicated Verbs of the I-Class, the reduplication containing either a ..."
4. A Grammar of the Hindūstānī Or Urdū Language by John Thompson Platts (1874)
"1) Intensives. 208. Intensives arc formed by prefixing the root of a verb to
another verb, which is regularly conjugated, the root remaining unchanged. ..."
5. Principles of Composition by Percy Holmes Boynton (1915)
"Weak connectives and intensives. Another form of mild impropriety is the use of
ill-chosen conjunctions and weak intensive adverbs. ..."
6. A Comparative Grammar of the Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian by Franz Bopp, Edward Backhouse Eastwick (1856)
"751. ad init), which does not, however, prevent me from referring these forms,
according to their origin, rather to intensives than to ..."
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