Meanings
comparative more proportionative · superlative most proportionative
- Proportional; proportionate.
Proportionative assertives occur in styles of all kinds, from the least formal to the most formal. Satisfactory declarative equivalents do not exist.
1971, Ralph B. Long, Dorothy R. Long, The System of English Grammar (page 113)
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