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ablative absolute
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ab·la·tive absolute  (bl-tv)
n.
In Latin grammar, an adverbial phrase syntactically independent from the rest of the sentence and containing a noun or pronoun plus an adjunct, usually a participle or adjective, with both elements in the ablative case.
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Noun1.ablative absolute - a constituent in Latin grammar; a noun and its modifier can function as a sentence modifier
grammatical constituent, constituent - (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction
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