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presentive

adj

Etymology

From present + -ive.

  1. derived from prae-
  2. derived from praesens
  3. derived from present
  4. inherited from present
  5. suffixed as presentive — “present + ive”

Definitions

  1. Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind

    Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination.

    • How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries.

  2. Introducing or asserting the existence or occurrence of something in the present.

  3. A grammatical construct that introduces or asserts the existence or occurrence of…

    A grammatical construct that introduces or asserts the existence or occurrence of something in the present.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA