perfective
English
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Etymology
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[edit]- IPA(key): /pə(ɹ)ˈfɛktɪv/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛktɪv
Adjective
[edit]perfective (comparative more perfective, superlative most perfective)
- (grammar, linguistics) Of, or relative to, the perfective aspect.
- Antonym: imperfective
- (grammar, catachresis) Of, or relative to, a perfect tense.
- (obsolete) Tending to make perfect, or to bring to perfection.
- a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
- a perfective alteration
- 1701, John Ray, “Of Bodies Endued with a Sensitive Soul, or Animals”, in The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation, […], 3rd edition, London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, […], →OCLC, page 191:
- It is not likely that Eternal Life ſhall be a torpid and unactive ſtate, or that it ſhall conſiſt only in an uninterrupted and endleſs Act of Love; the other Faculties ſhall be employed as well as the Will, in Actions ſuitable to, and perfective of their Natures; […]
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[edit]Noun
[edit]perfective (plural perfectives)
Translations
[edit]perfective verb form
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French
[edit]Adjective
[edit]perfective
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