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substantive Noun Grammar a noun or pronoun used in place of a noun Adjective 1. having importance or significance: substantive negotiations between management and staff 2. of or being the essential element of a thing [Latin substare to stand beneath]
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The Cyclic poet uses `beggar' as a substantive, and so means to say that when Odysseus had changed his clothes and put on rags, there was no one so good for nothing at the ships as Odysseus. Many who knew her, thought it a pity that so substantive and rare a creature should have been absorbed into the life of another, and be only known in a certain circle as a wife and mother. The Albino is as well made as other men --has no substantive deformity --and yet this mere aspect of all-pervading whiteness makes him more strangely hideous than the ugliest abortion. |
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