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Example sentences for "substantive"

Lexicographically close words:
substantiated; substantiates; substantiating; substantiation; substantival; substantively; substantives; substation; substaunce; substitute
  1. Count One of the Indictment is a conspiracy count, covering the entire substantive part of the Indictment.

  2. The majority of the substantive provisions had become obsolete.

  3. The emphasis under Count Two of the Indictment is on the substantive crimes to which the conspiracy related and which were committed in the course of and pursuant to that conspiracy.

  4. In the case of many of the defendants the evidence will show direct and immediate personal participation in the substantive crime itself.

  5. At the same time, his philosophy rejected a substantive absolute, or any other spiritual realities or existences apart from the universe given in feeling and consciousness.

  6. In the second place, he said, ministers proposed that this land-tax should be redeemable at the end of five years, by all who had a substantive interest in the estate.

  7. For a picture of an actual grisette, drawn by perhaps the greatest master of artistic realism (adjective and substantive so seldom found in company!

  8. The Spanish Ballads form something like a substantive work, and one of nearly as great merit as is possible to poetical translations of poetry.

  9. So far Adam Smith is right, and the history of almost every substantive might be cited in support of his view.

  10. The third stage, in which roots coalesce so that neither the one nor the other retains its substantive independence, I call the Inflectional Stage.

  11. A language, as long as it is spoken by anybody, lives and has its substantive existence.

  12. In a similar manner, we find that Sanskrit derives from ar the substantive aritra, not in the sense of a plough, but in the sense of a rudder.

  13. In Sanskrit every substantive has its locative, as well as its genitive, dative, and accusative.

  14. The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was.

  15. Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an word sentence.

  16. This form of expression is now for the most part obsolete, the a being omitted and the verbal substantive treated as a participle.

  17. We have in use the substantive culture, but, though the dictionaries recognize the verb to culture, we do not use it.

  18. The use of this adjective as a substantive is said to be an Americanism.

  19. I trusted that some day it would prove to be a substantive religion.

  20. With regard to the ellipsis of the substantive verb, nothing can be more common.

  21. We charge this as a substantive crime, and as the forerunner of the oppression, desolation, and ruin of that miserable country.

  22. And we farther contend, that each of these aggravations and pretences is itself, in fact and in its principle, a substantive crime.

  23. Every substantive would have a diminutive form in is, and an augmentative in chi, the vowel of the latter to be dropped where a vowel begins the word.

  24. The substantive verb to be, deemed by many philologists to be wanting in the Indian language of this continent, is perceived to be freely used by Mr. Peter Jones in the translation of John, as in c.

  25. The substantive preceded the verb in the organization of the language.

  26. In a letter of this date, he says: "I am extremely anxious for your conjugation of the Chippewa substantive verb.

  27. If the dyeing is fast with this treatment we have a substantive cotton yellow or thiazine red; if it is not, we have an ordinary azo dye.

  28. Substantive dyes, which do not require the use of a mordant, as the colour is fixed by the fibre without such reagents.

  29. If the boiling with very dilute hydrochloric acid darkens the colour we have a substantive cotton dye.

  30. Mastic' is doubtless an adjective formed without recondite significance from the substantive 'mastic,' i.

  31. All phases of feeling lay within the scope of his intuition, and the successive order in which he approached them bore no explicable relation to substantive incident in his private life or experience.

  32. The punishment varies in the different states, otherwise there is little substantive difference in the laws of the two countries.

  33. The word is used both as a substantive and as an adjective.

  34. They thus facilitate the attack of an enemy, and in the extreme peril of the defeated sovereign they increase their demands in order to form a substantive State out of the ruins of his Empire.

  35. There is no great substantive objection to it; but it is not very carefully written.

  36. But they do much more than punish the infraction of the rights of persons; it is the infraction of right as right, which they resent as a substantive offence.

  37. Yet the woman of the tradition could not be transferred from the tradition as a great substantive personage into the Greek mythology, because in the tradition she stood an unembellished figure, wholly without attributes.

  38. We are forced, indeed, to take from them their substantial or substantive existence, for there can be no other substance but God, who includes all reality in himself.

  39. A real or substantive existence is, in his view, a res completa, a thing that can be conceived as a whole in itself without relations to any other thing.

  40. Also ready-made clothes--the substantive of SLOP.

  41. As a substantive in this sense SNACK means an innuendo.

  42. The circumstance that a thought or emotion has been recorded in a permanent form renders its identification easier, and hence may be important from the point of view of evidence, but it has no significance as a matter of substantive right.

  43. As world it has no substantive reality; it has no existence for self.

  44. It no more has substantive existence than has the world in a pantheistic system.

  45. Having no substantive existence, no reality in fact, they were to be ignored in Christological dogma.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "substantive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.