Attritive

/əˈtɹaɪtɪv/

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1858, Hugh Miller, Rambles of a Geologist, Chapter 5, in The Cruise of the Betsey; with Rambles of a Geologist, Edinburgh: Constable, p. 302, […] the clay […] had gradually been moulded, under the attritive influences of the elements, into series of alternating ridges and furrows,

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Do you mark how the wistaria, sun-impacted on this wall here, distills and penetrates this room as though (light-unimpeded) by secret and attritive progress from mote to mote of obscurity’s myriad components?

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That certain works did thus survive time’s attritive passage, and that people did continue to agree in their estimation of them would by no means show […] that their judgments were both objective and correct.

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From a nearby town came “crews of eager young men” who “pitched in” through the “attritive, swirling, arctic-like night.”

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