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
As for the Sajo who shall have wilfully transgressed the limit of our commands, he shall lose his donative, and—which is the heaviest of all punishments—our favour also.
From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Thomas Hodgkin
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
The young Simeonova too there With Ozeroff was wont to share Applause, the people's donative.
From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Henry Spalding
He had never been enthusiastically supported by the Rhine legions nor the praetorians, and his severity in maintaining discipline, added to his failure to pay the promised donative, completely alienated the loyalty of the guards.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
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