Qualificative n. That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement. "How many qualificatives, correctives, and restrictives he inserteth in this relation."
... Philadelphia, was the famous Uncle Prudent, Prudent being his family name. There is nothing surprising in America in the qualificative uncle, for you can there be uncle without having either nephew or niece. There they speak of uncle as in other places they speak of father, though the father may have ... — Rubur the Conqueror • Jules Verne
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