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Grammar : Adj
Spell : puh-zes-iv
Phonetic Transcription : pəˈzɛs ɪv



Définition of possessive

Origin :
  • mid-15c. (grammatical, also as a noun); 1550s in general use, from Middle French possessif (15c.) "relating to possession, possessive," and directly from Latin possessivus, from possess-, past participle stem of possidere "to possess" (see possess). Related: Possessively; possessiveness.
  • adj greedy
Example sentences :
  • But he passed them by, for she was waiting for him and he was hungry for the possessive love of his slave.
  • Extract from : « Life Sentence » by James McConnell
  • The possessive construction seems to me, however, to be preferable.
  • Extract from : « The Verbalist » by Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
  • The pronoun which, originally indeclinable, had no possessive.
  • Extract from : « The Verbalist » by Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
  • His eyes were an index of the man, bold and possessive and unwavering.
  • Extract from : « The Highgrader » by William MacLeod Raine
  • They never used the "s" in indication of the possessive case.
  • Extract from : « My Bondage and My Freedom » by Frederick Douglass
  • Nouns in the plural ending in s take an apostrophe only to form the possessive.
  • Extract from : « Punctuation » by Frederick W. Hamilton
  • Was it a shade too possessive and complacently sure for a stranger?
  • Extract from : « A Voice in the Wilderness » by Grace Livingston Hill
  • It is an ecstasy completely purged of the possessive instinct.
  • Extract from : « The Complex Vision » by John Cowper Powys
  • Of all mortal instincts, the possessive instinct is the most insidious and most evil.
  • Extract from : « The Complex Vision » by John Cowper Powys
  • The possessive instinct is, in its profoundest abyss, an amorist of death.
  • Extract from : « The Complex Vision » by John Cowper Powys

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