GENITIVE CASE
GENITIVE CASE. A term in GRAMMAR marking possession and analogous relationships in the case system of LATIN and other inflected languages. In the phrase dies irae days of wrath, irae is the genitive of ira wrath, anger. The term has been carried over into English grammar, but is not so common as possessive. See DOUBLE GENITIVE, GROUP POSSESSIVE, SAXON GENITIVE.
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Possession , The ownership, control, or occupancy of a thing, most frequently land orpersonal property, by a person.
The U.S. Supreme Court has said that "there i… Possessive Pronoun , POSSESSIVE PRONOUN. A PRONOUN which expresses possession. Strictly applied, the term covers eight items used independently, as in The house is ours:… Adverse Possession , A method of gaining legal title to real property by the actual, open, hostile, and continuous possession of it to the exclusion of its true owner for… Dybbuk , Dybbuk
DYBBUK is a term used in Jewish sources for a dead soul possessing the body of a living person. The term first appears in seventeenth-century… Apostrophe , APOSTROPHE1 [Pronunciation and stress: ‘a-POS-tro-fy’]. The sign ('), sometimes regarded as a PUNCTUATION MARK, sometimes as a DIACRITIC. The apostro… locative , loc·a·tive / ˈläkətiv/ Gram. • adj. relating to or denoting a case in some languages of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives, expressing location. • n. (t…
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