Sekirov Dictionary

augmentive

adjective 3
noun 2
forms 3

adjective3

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Serving to augment, enhance, or increase; augmentative.
- The data leave little doubt that the augmentive power of these blood samples was much greater from the formed elements than from the plasma. — 1936
•
Supplementary; additional.
- I have the requisite authority to provide augmentive information to you concerning the history and tragic circumstance of the loss. — 2011
•
Changing the meaning to one that is a larger, more complete, or more elaborate version of the original sense.
- Observe, that as ry is augmentive, it is not usual to give it a plural form, (for the plural termination is in a certain sense augmentive,) — 1816

noun2

•
An augmentive affix; augmentative.
- While it is clear that the augmentive involves the imposition of velar articulation on the segment, there was some variation in the actual realization of this articulation. — 1993
•
Something that augments.
- The chief thing which they point out to me is that there was no religious sense in the peasantry at all. The names and symbols of worship were augmentives of conversation, but no more. — 1924

forms

augmentives · more augmentive · most augmentive

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