fientive

English

Etymology

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Adjective

fientive (not comparable)

  1. (grammar) Designating a durative and dynamic action performed by the subject.
    • 1977, Haiim B. Rosén, Contemporary Hebrew, page 182:
      This underlines again that a contrast of nominality versus verbality conveys a stative versus fientive purport.
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