Deletive

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Tending to delete or destroy. uncommon

    "lexical deletive rules"

Example

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"[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."

Etymology

from delete + -ive.

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