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separative
[ sep-er-uh-tiv, -uh-rey- ]
separative
/ ˈsɛprə-; ˈsɛpərətɪv /
adjective
- tending to separate or causing separation
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Derived Forms
- ˈseparativeness, noun
- ˈseparatively, adverb
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Other Words From
- sepa·rative·ly adverb
- sepa·rative·ness noun
- non·sepa·rative adjective
- un·sepa·ra·tive adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of separative1
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Example Sentences
She had felt the moment of detached fancy as separative, and he had now to soothe her passionate weeping.
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Philo struggled against the separative and exclusive tendency which characterized a section of his race.
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The spread of infidelity in Germany appears to be the main cause of this separative tendency among the Pietists.
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The other sharp, mordicant and separative that begets nothing.
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The first great feeling of separate nationalism brought in its train a whole host of new separative feelings.
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