Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case indicating a state of being or an existence in a particular capacity or state in some languages, as in Finnish professorina, “as a professor.”
- noun The essive case.
- noun A word or form in the essive case.
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- adjective grammar of, or relating to the
grammatical case that in somelanguages indicatesexistence in astate orcapacity - noun grammar the
essive case , or a word in that case
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler discussed the agency's tentative plans during a hearing at the House Agriculture panel Wednesday, just one day before the CFTC is formally slated to vote on a proposal to tackle exc essive speculation in commodity futures, options and over-the-counter derivatives markets.
U.S. May Phase In Curbs on Speculative Trading Sarah N. Lynch 2010
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Predictably, the irregular essive verb *yiθ becoming PIE *h₁es- would be an outlier from this general pattern and “to be” is a rather oddball verb cross-linguistically speaking.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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Predictably, the irregular essive verb *yiθ becoming PIE *h₁es- would be an outlier from this general pattern and “to be” is a rather oddball verb cross-linguistically speaking.
Determining typical forms behind Semitic verbal loans in Pre-IE 2008
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O. would that be O.rah-essive since, as she notes, many of the silliest positive thinking ideas are touted by Lady O. Ehrenreich is now well, despite being angry about both her cancer and the healthcare system.
TheTyee.ca 2010
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TZN: Some fans have say that Wolverine acts "hypocritical" at points in the show in going after Cyclops for doing things on his own, but then going off alone to investigate Weapon X. JOHNSON: You're likely referring to the episode "eX.essive Force" which aired on Nicktoons recently.
Toon Zone News 2009
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The console was released in November 2006 and its total sales amount to an impr essive 15.4 million only in the United States.
Portal IT News 2009
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The console was released in November 2006 and its total sales amount to an impr essive 15.4 million only in the United States.
Portal IT News 2009
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Featherstone laid down an early marker with an impr-essive opening league win last weekend,
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In the mean time, gi-essive in Turkey, as well as he sent for the Pervise, whorti he elsewhere.
Sporting Magazine 1813
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[(I) 22 (n) -1 (to these dig) 9 (r) 2 (essive reflections we are, perhaps,)] TJ
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