Incensive

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Tending to excite, provoke or stir up emotions; inflammatory.

    "incensive aspects of the soul"

Example

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"To be extremely hated and inhumanly persecuted , without any fault committed or just occasion offered, is greatly incensive of human passion"

Etymology

From incense + -ive.

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