Entertainment / Literature / Subjective Genitive: A genitive case common in Greek grammar in which the genitive functions as the origin or source (or subject) of the entire grammatical construction. David Smith notes that in such cases the substantive modified by the genitives acts like the object, he points to Philippians 4:7 as an example of a subjective genitive: the peace of [from] God (Smith 9). In such cases, the Greek indicates that the peace comes from God, not that the peace belongs to God, and this distinction is hard to convey in English without tweaking the preposition of by replacing it with from. Technically, of is a grammatically accurate choice but it inaccurately suggests a purely possessive genitive in English, from conveys the sense of origin more accurately, but it falsely suggests a dative/ablative construction. Philippians 3:14 is another example.
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Subjective Verb Synonyms: nominative
Subjective Adjective Synonyms: personal, individual, idiosyncratic, prejudiced, biased
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Entertainment / Literature / Uninflected Genitive: A genitive that has no case ending to signal its function. A number of such uninflected genitives appeared in Early Modern English--especially for nouns that originally were feminine in Anglo-Saxon gr MORE