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Possessive

adjective

Serving to express or indicate possession. Synonym: genitive. "The genitive endings"

Desirous of owning.

Having or showing a desire to control or dominate.

noun

The case expressing ownership. Synonyms: genitive, genitive case, possessive case.

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"Possessive" Quotes from Famous Books

... never, as the reader may possibly have observed, present, except through the senses of other characters, is a concretion of disturbing Beauty impinging on a possessive world. ...

— Quotes and Images From The Works of John Galsworthy • John Galsworthy

... answered Banneker with perceptible emphasis on the possessive, "doesn't believe that ...

— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... of some means of putting either sense or the fear of God into Elinor Piper, whatever Ted may say about it, and wondering how the latter would take a suggestion to come over to Melgrove for a while instead of starting an immoral existence with that beautiful but possessive friend of Louise's, he drops ...

— Young People's Pride • Stephen Vincent Benet

... Nothing pleased her so much as for Billie to make one family of the three. The young cousin had become such a fixture in her home that she had grown quite jealous of Duncan Campbell's possessive airs ...

— The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp • Katherine Stokes

... was driven into an intimate and possessive tone with regard to Buntingford, which was more than the facts warranted, and soon reduced Helena to monosyllables, and ...

— Helena • Mrs. Humphry Ward

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