Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case indicating absence, as Finnish puhumatta “without speaking.”
- noun The abessive case.
- noun A word in the abessive case.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Latin abesse, to be absent, away; see absent.]
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jmjarmstrong commented on the word abessive
JM is not going to be obsessive about abessives - in fact he will leave them alone.
February 16, 2011