substantive
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Supporters say it won’t make any substantive changes, but instead make the rules easier to understand by deleting duplicated language.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
The Budget comes ahead of the first substantive meeting between the prime minister and the first minister at the National Economic Council later this week, where devolution is expected to be discussed.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Stubb described the discussion between the three as "frank and substantive".
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
The U.N.’s human-rights agency hasn’t provided a substantive update.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Out of the whole saga, there was one substantive change that was made rather quickly.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
The terminations of the cases and numbers of adjectives are the same as those of substantives, and are treated in the preceding paragraph.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
Thus, whilst O. Irish possesses five cases the Brythonic dialects have only one, and they have further lost the neuter gender and the dual number in substantives.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
A different Latin suffix -culum, forming substantives from verbs, is represented in the form -cle in several words adopted through French, as miracle, oracle, spectacle. -um, neuter term., as medium.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
In Middle Irish the declensions and conjugations are much simplified and the neuter gender is given up in substantives.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
Our vowel terminations amount but to one-fourth of the language; all substantives closing in hard consonants were to have a final vowel, and the consonant was to be omitted after the vowel.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
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