释义 |
abessive, a. Chiefly Finnish Gram.|æˈbɛsɪv| [f. L. abesse to be distant + -ive.] Applied to the case which denotes absence.
1890C. N. E. Eliot Finnish Gram. 132 The comitative and abessive express respectively the presence and absence of an object. 1930F. R. Blake in Curme Vol. Ling. Studies 37 The immaterial adnominal cases are..abessive—coffee without sugar. |