About The Word Separative
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Separative
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What's The Definition Of Separative?
[adj] (of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group; "whereas `each,' `every,' `either,' `neither,' and `none' are distributive or referring to a single member of a group, `which' in `which of the men' is separative"
[adj] serving to separate or divide into parts; "partitive tendencies in education"; "the uniting influence was stronger than the separative" [adj] (Hebrew orthography; used of an accent) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word at follows it Synonyms | Synonyms for Separative: disjunctive | distributive | partitive Related Terms | Find terms related to Separative: See Also | Separative In Webster's Dictionary \Sep"a*ra*tive\, a. [L. separativus.]
Causing, or being to cause, separation. ``Separative virtue
of extreme cold.'' --Boyle.
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