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abessive

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ab⋅es⋅sive

  [a-bes-iv] Grammar
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–adjective
1. noting a case, as in Finnish, whose distinctive function is to indicate absence or lack.
–noun
2. the abessive case.
Origin:
1890–94; < L abess(e) to be distant + -ive
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ab·es·sive   (āb'ěs'ĭv)   
adj.  Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case indicating absence, as Finnish puhumatta "without speaking."
n.  

  1. The abessive case.

  2. A word in the abessive case.


[From Latin abesse, to be absent, away; see absent.]
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