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durative
[ door-uh-tiv, dyoor- ]
adjective
Grammar.
- noting or pertaining to a verb aspect expressing incomplete or continued action. Beat and walk are durative in contrast to strike and step.
durative
/ ˈʊəəɪ /
adjective
- denoting an aspect of verbs that includes the imperfective and the progressive
noun
- the durative aspect of a verb
- a verb in this aspect
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of durative1
First recorded in 1885–90; durat(ion) + -ive
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Example Sentences
Examples have not been reviewed.
Yet as soon as we give the “durative” notion of being red an inceptive or transitional turn, we can avoid the parallel form “it becomes red, it turns red” and say “it reddens.”
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The thing called money thus is a durative good passing from hand to hand in a community, and completing its use in turn to each possessor of it only as he parts with it.
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