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Preclusive

adjective
1.
Made impossible.  Synonym: obviating.






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"Preclusive" Quotes from Famous Books



... there not a sort of fashionable taste for the productions of antiquity, the want of which is quite unpardonable in our polished and literary circles? Does not the attainment of this taste, in any meritorious degree, by necessarily requiring much study, operate as preclusive of information to the possession of which no peculiar epithet of a commendatory nature has hitherto been awarded? Nay, is there not a sort of prejudice allied to a notion of vulgarity, directed against almost any shew of acquaintance with the habits and histories ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 15 (of 18) • Robert Kerr



Words linked to "Preclusive" :   preclude, preventive, preventative



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