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comparative more vocative, superlative most vocative
Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation. examples
(grammar) Used in address; appellative (said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed). For example "Domine, O Lord" examples
plural vocatives
(grammar) The vocative case examples
(grammar) A word in the vocative case examples
(rare) Something said to (or as though to) a particular person or thing; an entreaty, an invocation. quotations
[T]he two latter will hardly come neither, if they think it will be to hear your whining vocatives.
1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter L”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […]