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- noun grammar Two or more consecutive nouns in the possessive case, as with "St. Paul's Cathedral's vergers"; discouraged on grounds of style.
- noun Combination of the periphrastic possessive, "of x" with the possessive inflection of a noun. For example, "A friend of John's".
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Telofy commented on the word double possessive
Constructions like “this extreme exactness of his” or “Any Friend of Nicholas Nickleby’s is a Friend of Mine”. (from Wikipedia)
See also: World Wide Words: Double Possessive
June 28, 2010