Usually means: Addressing or invoking a person directly.
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  2. compellative: Wordnik
  3. compellative: Wiktionary
  4. compellative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  5. Compellative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
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  7. compellative: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  8. Compellative: TheFreeDictionary.com
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  10. Compellative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (grammar) The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative.

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nomen appellativum, agname, appel, title, cognomen, aptonym, call, cognomination, gentilic, aptronym, more...

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nomen appellativum, agname, appel, title, cognomen, aptonym, call, cognomination, gentilic, aptronym, more...



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