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Partitive

adjective
1.
(Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole.
2.
Indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts.
3.
Serving to separate or divide into parts.  Synonym: separative.  "The uniting influence was stronger than the separative"
noun
1.
Word (such a 'some' or 'less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole.





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"Partitive" Quotes from Famous Books



... ses ws. Sweet errs in explaining ses as attracted into the genitive by s. It is not a predicate adjective, but a partitive genitive ...
— Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book - with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary • C. Alphonso Smith
... to be a noun; because the expression may either be elliptical, or have the construction of an adverb: as, "Though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved."—2 Cor., xii, 15. Dr. Johnson seems to suppose that the partitive use of these words makes them nouns; as, "They have much of the poetry of Mecaenas, but little of his liberality."—DRYDEN: in Joh. Dict. Upon this principle, however, adjectives innumerable would be made nouns; for we can just as well say, "Some of the poetry,"—"Any of ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown


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