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Vocative

noun
1.
The case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed.  Synonym: vocative case.





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... the other interjection oh, is not uncommon even among grammarians. The latter has no concern with this rule, nor is it equivalent to the former, as a sign: O is a note of wishing, earnestness, and vocative address; but oh is, properly, a sign of sorrow, pain, or surprise. In the following example, therefore, a ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown


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