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Vocative

noun
1.
The case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed.  Synonym: vocative case.





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"Vocative" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the noun to express case, but the equivalents of cases are shown by suffixes. The vocative alone often takes a final a ...
— The Mafulu - Mountain People of British New Guinea • Robert W. Williamson
... would say. When she did come in he would crow and chuckle, "Nope. I refuse to be tempted yet; I am a busy man. But maybe I'll give you those verbal jewels of great price on your next visitation, oh thou in the vocative—some Latin scholar, eh? Keep it up, kid; good work. Maybe you'll ...
— The Job - An American Novel • Sinclair Lewis


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