ejective
Americanadjective
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serving to eject.
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Phonetics. (of a voiceless stop, affricate, or fricative) produced with air compressed above the closed glottis.
noun
adjective
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relating to or causing ejection
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phonetics (of a plosive or fricative consonant, as in some African languages) pronounced with a glottal stop
noun
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Origin of ejective
Example Sentences
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Call our concepts of ejective things self-transcendent or the reverse, it makes no difference, so long as we don't differ about the nature of that exalted virtue's fruits—fruits for us, of course, humanistic fruits.
From Meaning of Truth by James, William
But inasmuch as—religious faith apart—we are not able to verify any such ejective interpretation, we are not able to estimate its value.
From Mind and Motion and Monism by Romanes, George John
For, if physical and mental processes are everywhere consubstantial, or identical in kind, it can make no difference whether we regard their sequences as objective or ejective, physical or spiritual.
From Mind and Motion and Monism by Romanes, George John
The ejective existence thus ascribed to society serves as a stepping-stone to the yet more vague and general ascription of such existence to the Cosmos.
From Mind and Motion and Monism by Romanes, George John
So great, too, was the ejective force that the fine volcanic dust was blown up to a height of fifty thousand feet, or over nine miles, into space.
From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Linthicum, Richard
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