divertive
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- undivertive adjective
Etymology
Origin of divertive
Example Sentences
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The whole Work being intermix'd with variety of useful and divertive Relations, never before published.
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It was clear that for them such an arrival was more divertive than the sharing of a sorrow that scarcely touched their hearts.
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The first issue was published under the title Songs Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive; the second, under the Wit and Mirth title.
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From the very beginning of the Irish National Dramatic Company, Mr. Yeats has been an advocate of scenery that is background chiefly, and in no way divertive of attention from the play itself, its thought, its words, its acting.
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This shews some good will he has to the Comick Trade however; and I doubt not, but if his Closet were Ransack'd, we might find a divertive Scene or two, effects of his idle Non-preaching hours, where Modesty, Wit, and good Behaviour, would be shewn in perfection.
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