Dissolutive

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Producing dissolution; dissolvent. archaic

    "It seemed a perfect tonic to the man to seek out some long-established relationship […] and interpose his dissolutive bulk between the pair-bonding, unsticking the accretions of years, experiences, children…even love."

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dissolvingmeltingthawing

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"It seemed a perfect tonic to the man to seek out some long-established relationship […] and interpose his dissolutive bulk between the pair-bonding, unsticking the accretions of years, experiences, children…even love."

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