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Illative   Listen
noun
Illative  n.  An illative particle, as for, because.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Illative" Quotes from Famous Books



... especially the curious confusion made in such comments as the one I have quoted from the Times, and made clearer what Chesterton was really saying by a comparison with the "illative sense" of Cardinal Newman. It is the usual difficulty of trying to express a partly new idea. Newman had coined an expression, but it did not express all he meant, still less all that Chesterton meant. Yet it was difficult to use the word "reason" ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward



Words linked to "Illative" :   grammar, inferential, deductive



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