orientative

English

Orientative case on Wikipedia

From orientate ‎ -ive or orient ‎ -ative.

orientative

Serving to orient or orientate.
- 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
  An activities coordinator named Suzy Ghosh came by with orientative tidings and registration forms for the afternoon’s outings in Newport, Rhode Island.
- 2021 June 16, Pirni A., Balistreri M., Capasso M., Umbrello S., Merenda F., “Robot Care Ethics Between Autonomy and Vulnerability: Coupling Principles and Practices in Autonomous Systems for Care.”, in Frontiers in robotics and AI, volume 8, →DOI, 654298:
  In our view, this approach to care ethics can be operationalized through an innovative account of two basic orientative principles and their systemic interrelation: autonomy, on the one hand, and the principle of vulnerability, on the other.
(grammar) Transmitting the sense of orientation towards an entity.
- 2011 July 15, Dibella Wdzenczny, “The case for fewer cases in pre-chukotko-kamchatkan: Grammaticalization and semantics in internal reconstruction”, in Digital Commons @ EMU, retrieved 2022-02-28, Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations: 333:
  The orientative case indicates that an entity or event is oriented towards or around the referent.

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