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passive noun

noun

Grammar.
  1. a noun whose referent is the recipient of an action, as trainee, multiplicand.


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On this Memorial Day we are reminded by its origins among Black Americans at the end of the Civil War that democracy must be an active verb, not a passive noun.

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"A good read" is now considered the highest recommendation, though the phrase is entirely non-descriptive and reduces a once purposive and active verb to a meek and passive noun.

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To love is an active verb and woman's a passive noun.

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