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Definition of Ablative case
1. Noun. The case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb.
Definition of Ablative case
1. Noun. (grammar): case used in some languages to indicate movement '''away from''' something, removal, separation, source. It corresponds roughly to the English prepositions "from", "away from", and "concerning". ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ablative Case
Literary usage of Ablative case
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1903)
"ablative case 398. Under the name Ablative are included the meanings and, in
part, the forms of three cases, — the Ablative proper, expressing the relation ..."
2. A Study in Case Rivalry: Being an Investigation Regarding the Use of the by Clinton Leroy Babcock (1901)
"Cicero shows four or five instances followed by de and the ablative case.
This construction occurs also, but infrequently, when a thing is referred to. ..."
3. Elements of Latin by Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1921)
"ablative case. Another case lacking in English, but found in Latin, is the Ab'lative.
This case is used to express the relations conveyed in English by the ..."
4. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Gonzalez Lodge (1894)
"Ablative (Case of Adverbial Relation). Answers : where ? whence ? wherewith 9 ,
regularly iu syntax. The Instrumental (answers: wherewith?), which . ..."
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