presentive
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Professor Earle divides all words into presentive and symbolic, the former denoting objects and conceptions, the latter the relations which exist between these.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
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