vocative

Example Sentences

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I get pedantic about the placement of the vocative comma in “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen.”

From The New Yorker

And I like Mitch most when he returns fire, peppering Matt, who is young and pretty, with a barrage of snarky vocatives.

From The New Yorker

His first vocative expressed all, but he was a politician and used to elaborating his mental processes for the benefit of befuddled intellects.

From Project Gutenberg

Lord Vanity, not feeling himself included in the last vocative, took a pinch of Rappee and gazed very fiercely at my Lady Bunbutter through the rheum and water of his ancient eyes.

From Project Gutenberg

Now, Ma!" broke in Sophia, accompanying this vocative with a tart gesture of remonstrance, "Claire doesn't know a bit better than you or I do whether he was high-toned or not.

From Project Gutenberg