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Contributive

adjective
1.
Tending to bring about; being partly responsible for.  Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributory, tributary.  "The seaport was a contributing factor in the growth of the city" , "A contributory factor"





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"Contributive" Quotes from Famous Books



... most artistic fiction, is used only as subsidiary and contributive to narration. The aim of description—which is to suggest the look of things at a certain characteristic moment—is an aim necessarily static. But life—which the novelist purposes to represent—is not static ...
— A Manual of the Art of Fiction • Clayton Hamilton


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