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We found 5 dictionaries that define the word ablative absolutes:

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  1. ablative absolutes: Merriam-Webster
  2. ablative absolutes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ablative absolutes: Vocabulary.com
  4. ablative absolutes: Wiktionary
  5. ablative absolutes: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See ablative_absolute as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ablative absolute)

noun:  (grammar) A construction in Latin and other sister languages in which an independent phrase with a noun in the ablative case has a participle, adjective, or noun, expressed or implied, which agrees with it in gender, number and case – both words forming a clause grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence.
▸ Also see ablative_absolute


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