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Separative
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- 1 Serving to separate.
"[…] that much more full and eminent Experiment of the Separative Virtue of extream Cold, that was made, against their Wills, by the […] Dutch men that Winter’d in Nova Zembla;"
- 2 Tending to keep oneself separate from others. rare
"Pye had never forgotten or forgiven the ingenious fraud. It had taught him secretiveness, made him even more lone and separative. He had withdrawn from the world of men, academic and otherwise."
- 1 (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group wordnet
- 2 serving to separate or divide into parts wordnet
- 3 (used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it wordnet
- 1 Something that serves to separate.
"1853, A. F. Lendy, The Principles of War, London: Parker, Furnivall, and Parker, “Strategy,” Chapter 4, p. 117, […] as for the distance between [the roads], it varies according to the strength of the army and the nature of the ground, the essential point being not to leave between them obstacles acting as separatives, such as rivers, &c."
Etymology
Latin separativus.
Latin separativus.
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