separative
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of separative
1585–95; < Late Latin sēparātīvus, equivalent to Latin sēparāt ( us ) separate + -īvus -ive
Example Sentences
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He said that the West wanted to limit Iran’s enrichment capacity to “10,000 separative work units, which is equivalent to 10,000 centrifuges of the older type that we already have.”
From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2014
Pessimism is by its very nature separative, isolating, silent.
From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Gulick, Sidney Lewis
She had felt the moment of detached fancy as separative, and he had now to soothe her passionate weeping.
From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
With the exception of muter, these readings could have been recovered by conjecture; given the separative interpolation at iii 44, F differs surprisingly little from the other manuscripts.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear
The other, the separative policy, the keeping of leaven and lump apart, has been tried, and has failed, utterly failed.
From Amusement: A Force in Christian Training by Vincent, Marvin Richardson
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