nominative absolute

noun

Etymology

Calque of Latin nominativus absolutus.

Definitions

  1. A grammatically independent element of a sentence conveying additional circumstances

    A grammatically independent element of a sentence conveying additional circumstances; present:

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nominative absolute. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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