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emphatic state

emphatic state noun: a noun and attributive adjective form, occurring in Aramaic and Old South Arabian and by minority reconstructed for Proto-Semitic, where the word spearheads what is perceived as an agglutinated determiner.

Noun

emphatic state (countable and uncountable, plural emphatic states)

  1. A noun and attributive adjective form, occurring in Aramaic and Old South Arabian and by minority reconstructed for Proto-Semitic, where the word spearheads what is perceived as an agglutinated determiner.
    Synonyms:
    status emphaticus

Synonyms of emphatic state

  • status emphaticus

Forms of emphatic state

pluralemphatic states

Questions about emphatic state

What does emphatic state mean?
Emphatic state means a noun and attributive adjective form, occurring in Aramaic and Old South Arabian and by minority reconstructed for Proto-Semitic, where the word spearheads what is perceived as an agglutinated determiner.
What part of speech is emphatic state?
Emphatic state is a noun.
What is the plural of emphatic state?
The plural of emphatic state is emphatic states.

Words near emphatic state in the dictionary

  1. emphasizes
  2. emphasizing
  3. emphatic
  4. emphatic pronoun
  5. emphatic pronouns
  6. emphatic state
  7. emphatical
  8. emphaticall
  9. emphatically
  10. emphaticalness
  11. emphaticise

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