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elative

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7 lettersPronunciation /ɪˈleɪtɪv/Sorted aeeiltvStarts with EEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A grammatical form expressing a high or superior degree, especially in Semitic languages.

Word origin

From Latin ēlātus (“exalted, lofty, high”) + -ive. Possibly borrowed from German, which has produced a great deal of pioneering Semitist literature, and where Elativ is a common term for absolute superlative in all languages.

Used in a sentence

  • The elative of كَبِير (kabīr, “big”) is أَكْبَر (ʔakbar, “bigger/biggest, greater/greatest”).
  • And so the fleas, and flies in their degree, / By their attracted moyst humiditie, / Drawne from a certaine vertue elatiue, / Whence raine his generation doth deriue: / Seeke more than their accustom'd nutriment.
  • Thither shall gratitude's feelings elative wend, / Bath'd in the dew of the soul's lofty swelling.

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