quantitive
- a variation of quantitative.
Example Sentences
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Mr MacAskill said the abolition of corroboration would come hand-in-hand with additional safeguards including a "qualitative and quantitive" test for prosecutions and increasing the majority required by juries for a conviction.
From BBC • Oct. 20, 2013
The decadence of Latin early in the 7th century is exemplified by the fantastic grammarian Virgilius Maro, who also illustrates the transition from Latin to Proven�al, and from quantitive to accentual forms of verse.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various
Certain it is that neither metaphysical speculation, nor scientific inquiry, will ever enable us to reach the roots of this question, or extract from them the first quantitive essence of life itself.
From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.
Before writing quantitive verse it is necessary to learn to think in quantities.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert
Although through the quantitive arrangement and determinate accentuation of syllabic sound, rhythm may be exquisitely manifested through language, yet in music alone does it attain its full power and wonderful complexity.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 by Various
