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Definition of Genitives

1. genitive [n] - See also: genitive

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genitives

Literary usage of Genitives

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

1. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association by American philological association (1898)
"The Pronunciation of genitives in -/' from Substantives in -tus and -turn, by Professor EM Pease, of the Leland Stanford Junior University. ..."

2. A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical by Henry Sweet (1903)
"genitives. 1796. genitives always precede their nouns in Modern English, ... But in Old-English post-genitives are also frequent, especially in combination ..."

3. 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)
"PECULIAR genitives 359. Peculiar Genitive constructions are the following: — a. A poetical genitive occurs rarely in exclamations, in imitation of the Greek ..."

4. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"Two genitives preceding a substantive may serve to determine it. A twofold relation is then possible. Either the last genitive stands in immediate relation ..."

5. A Comparative Grammar of the Sanscrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian by Franz Bopp, Edward Backhouse Eastwick, Horace Hayman Wilson (1845)
"If we are to suppose that the singular genitives meina, theinn, seinu, have proceeded from possessive bases of the same sound, we should then have to assume ..."

6. Case Usage in Livy by Robert Benson Steele (1910)
"Many of the genitives indicate possession, yet many are construed with verbs or ... These, with the descriptive and the partitive genitives, form the larger ..."

7. Rudiments of a Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Tongue by Joseph Gwilt (1829)
"The FIRST DECLENSION is that of Nouns whose genitives end in ej-, the Datives and Ablatives in e, the Nominatives and Accusatives plural in aj-, ..."

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