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Conjunctive

noun

An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences. Synonyms: conjunction, connective, continuative.

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Etymology of 'Conjunctive'

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"Conjunctive" Quotes from Famous Books

... of ablative, conjunctive, substantive, or grammar, no more than his lackey, or a fishwife of the Petit Pont; and yet these will give you a bellyful of talk, if you will hear them, and peradventure shall trip as little in their language as the best ...

— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne

... of the Preterimperfect, the Preterperfect, and the Preterpluperfect of the Indicative Mood; and the Preterperfect, the Preterpluperfect and the Future of the Conjunctive, and the Participle Passive is in regular Verbs the same; as I loved, I have loved, I had loved, I may have loved, I might have loved, I shall have ...

— A Short System of English Grammar - For the Use of the Boarding School in Worcester (1759) • Henry Bate

... me and I will consider what remaineth to be done." Answered he, "There is no harm in that!" Then he spent the rest of the night with her in embracing and clipping, plying the particle of copulation in concert[FN418] and joining the conjunctive with the conjoined,[FN419] whilst her husband was as a cast-out nunnation of construction.[FN420] And they ceased not to be thus till morning, when she said to him, "'Tis not a night of thee that will content me, nor a day; no, nor yet a month nor a year; ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton

Words linked to "Conjunctive" : subordinate conjunction, joint, disjunctive, conjoin, copulative, function word, coordinating conjunction, subordinating conjunction, closed-class word