substantive

If we simply read the text of the 14th Amendment, the Due Process Clause seems an unlikely home for substantive rights.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Neighborhood Council Coalition’s subcommission on charter reform, said there was “no substantive change” to neighborhood councils in the amendment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Oliver Stuenkel, a professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, downplayed the importance of ideology in regional relations as more "rhetorical than substantive."

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

It lacks aesthetic appeal, organizational coherence, and the perception of substantive balance.”

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

It was his odd blindness, I think, to all problems of a personal nature which made him able at the end to transmute even Bunny’s highly substantive troubles into spiritual ones.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

He has a perfect hatred of pronouns, and for fear of a possible entanglement between 'hims' and 'hers' and 'its,' he will repeat not merely a substantive, but a whole group of substantives.

From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Sir Leslie Stephen

Frequently these substantives refer to parts of the body, and this, in passing, suggests the antiquity of this class of words and their value in comparison.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Daniel Garrison Brinton

Having remarked that it was always employed with these substantives, it naturally struck her that its proper place would be among them.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

To all verbs, then, from the AngloÐSaxon, to all based on the uncorrupted infinitival stems of Latin verbs of the first conjugation, and to all substantives, whencesoever sprung, we annex Ïable only.¸

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

There is a tendency to make the plural of all substantives except masculine monosyllables end in -an.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various