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ultimative

adj

Etymology

From ultimatum + -ive.

Definitions

  1. Resembling an ultimatum.

    • Beard calls the United States reply on November 26 to the Japanese proposal of November 20 an “ultimative notice.” Morgenstern calls it more simply an “ultimatum.”
    • […] Beck sent Kánya a letter “of ultimative character,” saying “that if we do not intervene, they (i.e. the Poles) will settle the question without us, but in that case they will eat the chestnuts.”
    • The only parallel within the book of Amos to this ultimative warning with its emphasis on the last chance is found in Amos 4:12 […]

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