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Suspensive   Listen
adjective
Suspensive  adj.  Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful. "In suspensive thoughts." "A suspensive veto." "The provisional and suspensive attitude."
Suspensive condition (Scots Law), a condition precedent, or a condition without the performance of which the contract can not be completed.






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"Suspensive" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'House of Commons,' has, within very recent days, in virtue of the largely predominant rural, radical vote, exercised its power of impeaching and punishing, by fine and dismissal from office, an entire Cabinet, for the crime of having advised the King that his veto was not merely suspensive, but absolute, in the matter of any Bill affecting the principles of the Constitution, and that the questions in dispute between the Sovereign and the Storthing were of a constitutional character, involving indirectly not only the stability of a monarchical form of government, but also that ...
— The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 • Various



Words linked to "Suspensive" :   suspenseful, cliff-hanging, nail-biting, indecisive



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