Definitions for donatives

donatives don·a·tive

Spelling: [don-uh-tiv, doh-nuh-]
IPA: /ˈdɒn ə tɪv, ˈdoʊ nə-/

Donatives is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 717 anagrams from letters in donatives (adeinostv).

Definitions for donatives

noun

  1. a gift or donation.

Origin of donatives

1400-50; late Middle English Latin dōnātīvum, noun use of neuter of dōnātīvus gratuitous, equivalent to dōnāt(us) (see donation) + -īvus Examples for donatives

It was customary that such of the records on copper as were donative charters should be authenticated.

He gratified their avarice by a liberal distribution of treasure, under the names of pay and donative.

I may here mention that the anomaly of “donative” benefices was abolished by Act of Parliament in 1898.

Had not the donative antimacassar already established a claim upon the Treachers' gratitude?

Galba undid himself by that speech, legi a se militem, non emi; for it put the soldiers out of hope of the donative.

We grant your request, but stop your donative; because it is not right that you should consume the labourer's bread in idleness.

I am writing with Butler's donative pencil, which makes my bad hand worse.

Even the donative of Constantine to the Roman bishop Silvester was declared to be a pitiable fiction.

That every convent and monastery should pay a donative, proportionable to its riches and rents.

Word Value for donatives
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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