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Possessive   /pəzˈɛsɪv/   Listen
Possessive

adjective
1.
Serving to express or indicate possession.  Synonym: genitive.  "The genitive endings"
2.
Desirous of owning.
3.
Having or showing a desire to control or dominate.
noun
1.
The case expressing ownership.  Synonyms: genitive, genitive case, possessive case.



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"Possessive" Quotes from Famous Books



... poems. "The Night-Wind" is a delicately beautiful fragment of dreamy metaphor. There is probably a slight misprint in the last line, since the construction there becomes somewhat obscure. "My Love's Eyes" has merit, but lacks polish. The word "azure" in the first stanza, need not be in the possessive case; whilst the use of a singular verb with a plural noun in the second stanza (smiles-beguiles) is a little less than grammatical. "Longing" exhibits the author at her best, the images and phraseology alike showing the touch ...
— Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 • Howard Phillips Lovecraft
... coffee and sat beside him. Her face betokened satisfaction, and she looked at Gregorio with a possessive smile. She had gained her desire, and asked fortune ...
— Stories by English Authors: Africa • Various
... exception of the love of a parent for a child this is the only human love which is outward-looking and centrifugal in its gaze; and even in the case of the love of a mother there is often something possessive and indrawing. ...
— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys
... we may make revolutions or wars, sending our armies marching through the countryside in creeping dusty columns, but we are only illusions on the page of history, shadows flitting across the face of the land; the rooks are perpetual, ineradicable, and possessive. They feed behind our plough; they flock in our green trees; they build in our valleys and in the shelter of our houses; summer and winter they are seen flying under our English skies; they mate and nest and bicker round ...
— Lynton and Lynmouth - A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland • John Presland
... are two kinds of discontent— Malignant, and progressive,— The latter is the proper sort, Of it, be quite possessive. The former, born of parentage Whose motive powers are evil, Serves but one purpose here below— To aid ...
— Our Profession and Other Poems • Jared Barhite


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