Substantive has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. | |
| 2. | Pekka Ervast, the author of "The Key to the Kalevala", says that the lord and the creator of the world was called Kaleva, and that, as a substantive noun, Kalevala means "the home of the Creator or the Lord", meaning the higher planes of life or the higher zones of unseen world. | |
| 3. | Some can talk on and on, about nothing substantive, ad infinitum. |