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Separative

adjective
1.
(used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it.
2.
Serving to separate or divide into parts.  Synonym: partitive.  "The uniting influence was stronger than the separative"
3.
(of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group.





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"Separative" Quotes from Famous Books



... looked doleful. Only - the moment after - a memory of his eyes in church embarrassed her. But for this inconsiderable check, all through meal-time she had a good appetite, and she kept them laughing at table, until Gib (who had returned before them from Crossmichael and his separative worship) reproved the whole ...
— Weir of Hermiston • Robert Louis Stevenson
... hell is in the nature of things a contradiction, for the finite cannot eternally bar the way of the infinite reality whose uprising is the cause of its pain; if it could, it would itself be infinite, which is absurd. Sin is essentially the endeavour to live for the finite, the separative, the divisive, as opposed to the infinite, the whole-ward, the All. Which ...
— The New Theology • R. J. Campbell


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