vocatively
adverb
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adv
Etymology: From vocative + -ly.
- In a vocative way.
“Kinship terminology is reportedly not used vocatively in family II, whereas it is in family I (note that Kwaza has no vocative morpheme). It is by MA considered ugly to use the words for 'husband' and 'wife' vocatively.”