objective genitive

noun

grammar a use of the genitive case to express an objective relationship, as in Latin timor mortis (fear of death)

Amor matris, subjective and objective genitive, may be the only true thing in life.

There is, properly, no "objective possessive" in English corresponding to the "objective genitive" in other languages.

The construction of the sentence is rather complex: Ovid's normal practice would be to employ an objective genitive with causa.

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