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deletive

adj

Etymology

from delete + -ive.

  1. borrowed from dēlētus
  2. formed as deletive — “delete + -ive”

Definitions

  1. Tending to delete or destroy.

    • lexical deletive rules
    • [T]he obtuſer end [of a style] vvas made more deletive, apt to put out, and obliterate, vvhen they vvould Stylum vertere [turn the style], vvhich our Burniſher (another Tool us'd by Chalcographers) and Poliſher performes.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for deletive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA