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elative
[ ee-luh-tiv, el-uh- ]
adjective
- noting a case, as in Finnish, whose function is to indicate motion out of or away from.
noun
- an elative case.
- an adjectival form, as in Arabic, denoting intensity or superiority, approximately equivalent to the comparative and superlative of other languages.
elative
/ 藞颈藧濒蓹迟瑟惫 /
adjective
- (in the grammar of Finnish and other languages) denoting a case of nouns expressing a relation of motion or direction, usually translated by the English prepositions out of or away from Compare illative
noun
- the elative case
- an elative word or speech element
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of elative1
C19: from Latin 脓濒腻迟us, past participle of efferre to carry out; see elate
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Example Sentences
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She faithfully records its wood-notes wild; "The elative d锟絛azzling, delicious, devastating, divine; and the deflative b锟絙eastly, bloody, boring, the bottom."
The upshot of the merit and demerit of human actions rests upon this basis, that nothing is so much in the power of our will as our will itself, and that we have this free-will鈥攖his, as it were, two-edged faculty鈥攁nd this elative power between two counsels which are immediately, as it were, within our reach.聽
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