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agentival
Variant of agentive
agentive
definition
agen·tive (ā′jən tiv)
adjective
Gram. of or producing a grammatical form that denotes the doer of a given action or the means of bringing about a given result
noun
an agentive form or affix, as the suffix -er in roller
Related Forms:
- agentival a′gen·ti′·val (-tī′vəl) adjective
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