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 • Dec. 18, 2018

Notice the abrupt change from third person "he" to vocative "thou" in the middle of verse four, the point at which the speaker is most in need of comfort.

From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2011

Since Kunstler's role is usually to attack well-entrenched precedent he can be counted on for an original pro vocative argument.

From Time Magazine Archive

The use of the vocative, and of the pronoun thou is certainly calculated to mislead, and the appearance of inconsistency is hardly avoidable.

From Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses by Adler, Felix

Ngandina—Maternal uncle or father-in-law; vocative form in the case of father-in-law, is ngandi or momo.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil