Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being a form of an adjective or adverb indicating identity of degree of comparison.
- noun The equative degree.
- noun An adjective or adverb expressing the equative degree.
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- adjective grammar Of, pertaining to, or being an equative.
- noun grammar A construction showing an equal
quality . In English, this is normally formed usingas . For example, the equative of happy is as happy as. - noun grammar A word in the equative form.
- noun grammar A grammatical
case in certain languages, includingOssetic ,Finnish andSumerian , that indicates something is like something else. English equivalents include he was the same age as her and he looks like him.
Etymologies
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Examples
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You sleep in equative lip biting slumber hugging a pillow you think is someone else.
November William Owen 2010
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We will also come back, by the same route, to the deep ontological ramifications of the so-called equative genitive (or genitive metaphor) in that line's second phrase: the breath of fresh air that is autumn, rather than the breath that issues from it, as one might say in common figure "the very breath of life."
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They can only project their equative mercy onto the situation.
Think Progress » Strategy Memo: White House Efforts to Undercut Torture Amendment Continue 2005
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And no, I am not saying that completely overrides individual motive intermingled in cognitive equative thought.
RealClimate 2009
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And no, I am not saying that completely overrides individual motive intermingled in cognitive equative thought.
RealClimate 2009
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And no, I am not saying that completely overrides individual motive intermingled in cognitive equative thought.
RealClimate 2009
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And no, I am not saying that completely overrides individual motive intermingled in cognitive equative thought.
RealClimate 2009
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And no, I am not saying that completely overrides individual motive intermingled in cognitive equative thought.
RealClimate 2009
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And no, I am not saying that completely overrides individual motive intermingled in cognitive equative thought.
RealClimate 2009
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And no, I am not saying that completely overrides individual motive intermingled in cognitive equative thought.
RealClimate 2009
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