retractive
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- retractively adverb
- retractiveness noun
- unretractive adjective
Etymology
Origin of retractive
1350–1400; Middle English retractif < Old French; retract 1, -ive
Example Sentences
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Stroman went on the IL retractive to June 7.
From Seattle Times
As Michael Proeve at University of Adelaide and Steven Tudor at La Trobe University write in their book, "Remorse: Psychological and Jurisprudential Perspectives": these are “retractive” emotions, which means they distance themselves from something that is associated with the self.
From Salon
Remorse belongs to a class of “retractive emotions,” such as guilt, shame, regret and contrition.
From Salon
But at the retractive moment he ran plump into the Major, stalking grandly along the tile-paved walk and smoking a war-time cheroot of preposterous length.
From Project Gutenberg
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