presentive
English
Etymology
Adjective
presentive (not comparable)
- Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination.
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- How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “presentive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)