abortive
adjective
failing to succeed; unsuccessful.
abortiveness
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a word derived from
abortive.
Example Sentences
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The assailants were repulsed; and Charles VII., who was just arriving at the camp, seeing the abortiveness of the attempt, went back to Pont-de-l'Arehe.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black
