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Separative   Listen
adjective
Separative  adj.  Causing, or being to cause, separation. "Separative virtue of extreme cold."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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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



Words linked to "Separative" :   partitive, separate, disjunctive



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