Usually means: Noun and participle, syntactically independent.
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  1. genitive absolute: Merriam-Webster
  2. genitive absolute: Wordnik
  3. genitive absolute: Wiktionary
  4. Genitive absolute: Dictionary.com
  5. Genitive absolute: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. genitive absolute: FreeDictionary.org
  7. Genitive absolute: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (genitive absolute)

noun:  (grammar) an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the genitive case; present in many Indo-European languages, such as:
noun:  in Ancient Greek, more frequent than the accusative absolute and the nominative absolute
noun:  in Sanskrit later to the locative absolute
noun:  in Avestan
noun:  in Armenian
noun:  in Tocharian, not so common
noun:  in Middle Dutch, early modern Dutch and (vestigially) modern Dutch
noun:  rarely in Middle High German

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