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ultimative en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English ultimatum Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English ultimative From ultimatum + -ive.

Meanings

1. Resembling an ultimatum.
   • The only parallel within the book of Amos to this ultimative warning with its emphasis on the last chance is found in Amos 4:12 […] 1989, Jörg Jeremias, The Book of Amos: A Commentary, →ISBN, page 89:
   • Beard calls the United States reply on November 26 to the Japanese proposal of November 20 an “ultimative notice.” Morgenstern calls it more simply an “ultimatum.” 1950, George Macgregor Waller, Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, page 98:
   • […] Beck sent Kánya a letter “of ultimative character,” saying “that if we do not intervene, they (i.e. the Poles) will settle the question without us, but in that case they will eat the chestnuts.” 1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, pages 209–10:

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