genitive
adjective
(in certain inflected languages) noting a case of nouns, pronouns, or adjectives, used primarily to express possession, measure, or origin: as John's hat, week's vacation, duty's call.
genitival
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a word derived from
genitive.
Example Sentences
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We are inclined to conjecture the s a genitival one, supplying the place of a missing of and von respectively.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various
I shall have occasion to notice the peculiar use of the genitive case and of genitival adjectives in worship later on.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
