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Purposive   Listen
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Purposive  adj.  Having or indicating purpose or design. "Purposive characters." "Purposive modification of structure in a bone." "It is impossible that the frog should perform actions morepurposive than these."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Purposive" Quotes from Famous Books



... for the steady upward progress we must resort to a higher Cause. We must say with Asa Gray, "Variation has been led along certain beneficial lines, like a stream along definite and useful lines of irrigation." We must say with Prof. Owen, "A purposive route of development and change, of correlation and inter-dependence, manifesting intelligent will, is as determinable in the succession of races as in the development and organization of the individual. Generations do ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 • Various



Words linked to "Purposive" :   goal-directed, purposeful, nonrandom



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