See elative on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From Latin ēlātus (“exalted, lofty, high”) + -ive. Possibly borrowed from German, which has produced a great deal of pioneering Semitist literature, and where Elativ is a common term for absolute superlative in all languages.",
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"ref": "1595, Thomas Lodge, A fig for Momus:",
"text": "And so the fleas, and flies in their degree, / By their attracted moyst humiditie, / Drawne from a certaine vertue elatiue, / Whence raine his generation doth deriue: / Seeke more than their accustom'd nutriment.",
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"ref": "1838, James Struthers, Poetic Tales, page 125:",
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"ref": "1910 May 27, David Henderson, “The Diagnosis of Brain Syphilis”, in State Hospital Bullitens, volume III, number 1, [New York] State Commission in Lunacy:",
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"ref": "1984, Richard Taylor, Good and Evil: A New Direction: a Forceful Attack on the Rationalistic Tradition in Ethics, page 242:",
"text": "whereas if one thinks instead that it is inflicted by others, then the elative feeling is one of masochism, which is quite rightly deemed a disease.",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "elative case of a noun",
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"word": "Elativ"
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"sense": "elative case of a noun",
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"alt": "しゅっかく",
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"sense": "elative case of a noun",
"word": "出格"
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