donative
Americannoun
noun
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a gift or donation
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a benefice capable of being conferred as a gift
adjective
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of or like a donation
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being or relating to a benefice
Etymology
Origin of donative
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin dōnātīvum, noun use of neuter of dōnātīvus gratuitous, equivalent to dōnāt ( us ) ( see donation) + -īvus -ive
Example Sentences
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The officials said that in the measures announced Monday, the United States would lift the cap on family remittances, previously set to $1,000 per quarter, and authorize donative remittances to non-family members.
From Reuters ● May 16, 2022
There appears to be no mention of any donative entrusted to the superb Matilda, either in the Biographie Universelle, or in Sismondi.”
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
Their discontent died away in idle murmurs, and Caracalla soon convinced them of the justice of his cause, by distributing in one lavish donative the accumulated treasures of his father's reign.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Henry Hart Milman
A large donative secured them the support of the Prætorian guard, and the joyous senate eagerly bestowed upon the new Augustus all the titles of imperial power.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
That every convent and monastery should pay a donative, proportionable to its riches and rents.
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe
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