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What is the opposite/antonyms for 'acquisition form'?
In the museum world, the word "deaccession" covers loss by any means, and is tracked in order to accurately account for a collection. This might be the right fit for your needs.
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Do linguists have a noun for referring to pieces of commendatory language, as a sort of antonym of 'pejoratives'?
Complimentary looks like a good opposite candidate to pejorative as in:
a complimentary review
a complimentary expression
a complimentary word
a complimentary description
See: Complimentary on ...
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Do linguists have a noun for referring to pieces of commendatory language, as a sort of antonym of 'pejoratives'?
I believe linguists mainly use the term ameliorative as opposed to pejorative. The language process associated with positive change is called amelioration, whereas negative change is known as ...
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What are the words that mean to make something (look) smaller?
Not all English words have direct antonyms. I cannot think of an antonym for the word magnify directly. You were pretty close with the antonym for enlarge being "ensmall". There is actually ...
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Do linguists have a noun for referring to pieces of commendatory language, as a sort of antonym of 'pejoratives'?
I agree with the term "Laudative" being apparently the correct term for referring to a commendatory grammatical term. It's in fairly regular current use in that sense in linguistic circles, ...
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Do linguists have a noun for referring to pieces of commendatory language, as a sort of antonym of 'pejoratives'?
I'd have thought "plaudit" was an approximation, though not as grammatically authoritative as laudative.
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Do linguists have a noun for referring to pieces of commendatory language, as a sort of antonym of 'pejoratives'?
Laudatives.
Laudatives are words or grammatical forms that denote a positive affect. That is, they express praise or approval on the part of the speaker. Laudatory words are rare in English compared ...
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