compellative

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English

Noun

compellative (plural compellatives)

(grammar) The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative.

References

“compellative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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