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essive
[ es-iv ]
adjective
- noting a case, as in Finnish, whose distinctive function is to indicate a state of being.
noun
- the essive case.
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Example Sentences
"Member how she used to tell us how she wasn't a tree as couldn't be transplanted, and how she was a libin' soul, and a p'og'essive sperrit, and how she wanted to see somefin' ob dis worl' she libbed in afore she parted hence and beed no more," said another.
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