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Definition of Attributive genitive

1. Noun. A word in the genitive case that is used as an attributive adjective. "An example of the attributive genetive is `John's' in `John's mother'"

2. Adjective. A word in the genitive case used as an attributive adjective. "An example of the attributive genitive is `John's' in `John's mother'"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Attributive Genitive

attribute attributed attributee attributees attributeness attributes attributing attribution attribution theory attributional

attributional complexity attributions attributive attributive adjective attributive adjectives attributive genitive (current term) attributive noun attributive nouns attributively attributiveness

attributives attrist attristed attrists attrit attrite attrited attritee attritees attriteness

Literary usage of Attributive genitive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"attributive genitive. 1. A noun or pronoun in the genitive may modify a noun. In the oldest period the genitive usually preceded the governing noun. ..."

2. Grammar of the Greek Language: For the Use of High Schools and Colleges by Raphael Kühner, Bela Bates Edwards, Samuel Harvey Taylor (1879)
"attributive genitive. The attributive genitive will be considered in treating the genitive, k 275, Rem. 5. } 260. с. Apposition. 1. ..."

3. A Grammar of the Greek Language by William Edward Jelf (1881)
"attributive genitive. Genitive with verbs of sharing, &c. - of contact, &c. ^— — of praying and vowing, Obs. 6. - - of eating, drinking, &c. ..."

4. Philological Studies: With English Illustrations by Josiah Willard Gibbs, Karl Ferdinand Becker (1857)
"Tmm ATTRIBUTIVE GENITIvE IN ENGLISH. IN modem grammar, that adjective which is ... This attributive genitive interchanges sometimes with the attributive ..."

5. A Comparative Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Language: In which Its Forms are by Francis Andrew March (1877)
"An attributive genitive may denote the possessor or author ... An attributive genitive may denote a characteristic of its subject, § 313. ..."

6. A Practical Introduction to Greek Prose Composition by Thomas Kerchever Arnold (1849)
"... attributive genitive."] The attributive genitive receives different 497 names according to the ..."

7. A Grammar of the Greek Language by William Edward Jelf (1866)
"The attributive genitive denotes that which produces or creates the subject ... The adjective for the attributive genitive, especially in poetry, II. ß, ..."

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