A contract terminative with the end of the war. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
In fact, the use of an accusative as a kind of "terminative" isn't unusual at all crosslinguistically. From Wordnik.com. [Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna] Reference
It is only an anticipatory name for a further associative and terminative process that. From Wordnik.com. [Meaning of Truth] Reference
The interior, as seen through the window, caused him to draw up with a terminative air and watch. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
We must attribute them to Him only in a terminative sense, as differing aspects, from the finite point of view, of his unique essence. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
Longways replied with terminative emphasis, as if the fact of his ignorance of Mrs. Henchard were sufficient to deprive her history of all interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference
Solomon Longways replied with terminative emphasis, as if the fact of his ignorance of Mrs. Henchard were sufficient to deprive her history of all interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference
'I'm sure,' added Mrs. Smith in a more philosophic tone, and as a terminative speech, 'if there'd been so much trouble to get a husband in my time as there is in these days -- when you must make a god-almighty of. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
‘I’m sure,’ added Mrs. Smith in a more philosophic tone, and as a terminative speech, ‘if there’d been so much trouble to get a husband in my time as there is in these days — when you must make a god-almighty of a man to get en to hae ye — I’d have trod clay for bricks before I’d ever have lowered my dignity to marry, or there’s no bread in nine loaves.’. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
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