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augmentives

augmentives is the plural of augmentive.

Meaning of augmentive

Noun

augmentive (plural augmentives)

  1. An augmentive affix; augmentative.
    • This coincidence between the numeral and the augmentive (for both are resolvable into the same etymon) has occasioned all my perplexity in deciding whether connectives ought to be resolved into augmentives, or augmentives into connectives; for, as we shall presently see, they are closely connected.1816, james Gilchrist, Philosophic Etymology: Or Rational Grammar
  2. Something that augments.
    • The chief thing which they point out to me is that there was no religious sense in the peasantry at all. The names and symbols of worship were augmentives of conversation, but no more.1924, Maurice Hewlett, Last Essays, page 113

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Questions about augmentives

What is augmentives the plural of?
Augmentives is the plural of augmentive.

Words near augmentives in the dictionary

  1. augmenters
  2. augmenteth
  3. augmentin
  4. augmenting
  5. augmentive
  6. augmentives
  7. augmentless
  8. augmentor
  9. augmentors
  10. augments
  11. Augrabies flat lizard

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