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- noun Plural form of
substantive .
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Examples
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In B, numbers are names or substantives; 2 of something is different in kind than 5 of something.
A Museum of Numbers stephen hastings-king 2011
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Our AAA colleagues likely will tell us the U.S. democracy and economy will not grow with approaches that celebrate structural changes over substantives changes.
John H. Jackson: Stop Kicking the Can Down the Road and Call AAA John H. Jackson 2011
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According to the OED, this “- general” has sometimes been attached playfully to ordinary substantives, e.g. Mr. Chad, “lover general at The Hague”; and the “assumption that και in the N.T., as ו in Hebrew, was the conjunction-general,” etc.
Governor-General 2009
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According to the OED, this “- general” has sometimes been attached playfully to ordinary substantives, e.g. Mr. Chad, “lover general at The Hague”; and the “assumption that και in the N.T., as ו in Hebrew, was the conjunction-general,” etc.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Our AAA colleagues likely will tell us the U.S. democracy and economy will not grow with approaches that celebrate structural changes over substantives changes.
John H. Jackson: Stop Kicking the Can Down the Road and Call AAA John H. Jackson 2011
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In B, numbers are names or substantives; 2 of something is different in kind than 5 of something.
A Museum of Numbers stephen hastings-king 2011
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Instead, the converse is true: given that Oresme rejects the traditional view that accidents are accidental forms, he must avoid the use of substantives in denominating the ontological status of accidents and thus quasi-automatically arrives at formulations that are characteristic of the theory of complexly signifiables.
Nicole Oresme Kirschner, Stefan 2009
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Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are fugitives from justice.
Les Miserables 2008
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Adjectives are often used as substantives or nouns in Arabic.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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The like also holds in our ideas of modes and relations; as justice, just; equality, equal: only with this difference, that some of the concrete names of relations amongst men chiefly are substantives; as, paternitas, pater; whereof it were easy to render a reason.
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