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Retardative

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    That retards; delaying, impeditive.

    "In the German lands east of the River Elbe and in the Habsburg Monarchy, the anchoring of the serfs to the lord's estate is generally believed to have had a retardative effect […]."

Etymology

From (the participle stem of) Latin retardāre + -ive.

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