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ab·la·tive absolute  audio  (bl-tv) KEY 

NOUN:
In Latin grammar, an adverbial phrase syntactically independent from the rest of the sentence and containing a noun or pronoun plus an adjunct, usually a participle or adjective, with both elements in the ablative case.



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