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Definition of Abessive
1. Adjective. (grammar) of, or relating to that grammatical case used in some languages to indicate absence ¹
2. Noun. (grammar) the abessive case, or a word in this case ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Abessive
1. grammatical case denoting absence [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abessive
Literary usage of Abessive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Finnish Grammar by Clemens Niemi (1917)
"ALLATIVE AND abessive CASES. 76. The allative expresses the place towards which
motion takes place, and is formed with the ending -lie; as, talo\lle, ..."
2. A Finnish Grammar by Charles Eliot (1890)
"*37 abessive of the jrd in I'm. of tappaa, to kill (p. ... abessive of 3rd infin.
of ottaa, to take. 33 Genitive sing, of oiva, right or proper. m Genitive ..."
3. A Philological Grammar Grounded Upon English, and Formed from a Comparison by William Barnes (1854)
"abessive CASE. A thing without another with which it is named in a sentence, is
in a case which may be called the abessive or ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The negative conjugation is peculiar; there are negative adjectives ending in
tern or lam and abessive cases (eg Finnish syyttä, without a cause, ..."
5. Introduction to the Science of Language by Archibald Henry Sayce (1880)
"... instances ceased to be independent or even semi-independent words ; indeed,
the marks of certain of the cases (the genitive -ti(a], the abessive -tat ..."
6. History of the New World Called America by Edward John Payne (1899)
"... or abessive of these languages, which is wanting in the Quichua, occurs in
other American languages. The Mexican, on the other hand, is an instance of ..."
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