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What does factitive mean?

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Adjective
  1. (linguistics) Taking a complement that expresses a result along with a direct object, or inherently implying a complement; or synonymous with causative
  2. (linguistics) Factive.
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This is also called the predicate objective or the factitive object.
This word completing a transitive verb is sometimes called a factitive object, or second object, but it is a true complement.

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