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Definition of Illatives
1. illative [n] - See also: illative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Illatives
Literary usage of Illatives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. God in Christ: Three Discourses by Horace Bushnell (1876)
"Under so many illatives and deductive propositions, he is emitting fire, ...
Besides, it will be clear, on examination, that his illatives often miscarry, ..."
2. A Digest of English Grammar, Synthetical and Analytical: Classified and by L. T. Covell (1855)
"These illatives usually hare a correlative (214) in the clause from which the
... What do the illatives usually have ? What does the correlative express? ..."
3. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829)
"... actually effecting the security of her person and state, out of enforced
illatives of future valuations; in which God hath tempered and ..."
4. The Origin and History of the English Language: And of the Early Literature by George Perkins Marsh (1862)
"50, H, in a passage translated by Rastell, sith, but, two lines lower, in More's
text, sins, are illatives; and sins is employed in the same way, pp. ..."
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