Talk:combatative
Latest comment: 8 months ago by -sche
FWIW, could be proscribed:
- 2007 September 1, William Brohaugh, Write Tight: Say Exactly What You Mean with Precision and Power, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 65:
- Avoid the syllable cysts. This is a matter of preventative medicine. Better yet, it's a matter of preventive medicine, since “preventative” contains a cyst, that extra “at” syllable. So it is with “combatative” instead of “combative.
- 1995 03, Richard Lederer, Adventures of a Verbivore, →ISBN:
- mischievous, not mischievious; empathic, not empathetic; combative, not combatative; accompanist, not accompanyist; regardless , not irregardless; grievous, not grievious; desalination, not desalinization; archetypal, not archetypical; […]
OTOH, here French combative is translated as English combatative:
- 2015 May 8, Aleš Erjavec, Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements, Duke University Press, →ISBN:
- [...] Mais la nouvelle culture s'affirme peutêtre plus combative, plus intrépide, ... (But perhaps the new culture is affirming itself in a more combatative, intrepid, and ruthless manner with respect […]