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ablative absolutes

ablative absolutes is the plural of ablative absolute.

Meaning of ablative absolute

Noun

ablative absolute (plural ablatives absolute or ablative absolutes)

  1. A construction in Latin and other sister languages in which an independent phrase with a noun in the ablative case has a participle, adjective, or noun, expressed or implied, which agrees with it in gender, number and case – both words forming a clause grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence.

Questions about ablative absolutes

What is ablative absolutes the plural of?
Ablative absolutes is the plural of ablative absolute.

Words near ablative absolutes in the dictionary

  1. ablations
  2. ablatitious
  3. ablatival
  4. ablative
  5. ablative absolute
  6. ablative absolutes
  7. ablative case
  8. ablative cases
  9. ablatively
  10. ablativeness
  11. ablatives

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