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essive|ˈɛsɪv|
[ad. Finn. essiivi, f. L. esse, with termination ad. L. -īvus: see -ive.]
The designation of one of the fifteen cases of Finnish, a declension expressing a continuous state of being, existence in a specified state or capacity.
1890[see adessive a.]. 1905Jespersen in Englische Studien XXXV. 9 Essive, indicating the state in which anybody or anything is. 1924― Philos. Gram. xiii. 183 In Finnish the predicative is..in the essive to denote the state in which the subject is at a given time. |