Word.ws English Dictionary

behabitive

behabitive adjective: adopting an attitude, by making an utterance.

Adjective

behabitive (comparative more behabitive, superlative most behabitive)

  1. Adopting an attitude, by making an utterance.
    • 'God is good' is behabitive and commissive said by someone brought up in the Christian tradition, but may not be said by an animist of his high god.1969, Robert W. Jenson, The Knowledge of Things Hoped For, page 117

Noun

behabitive (plural behabitives)

  1. A speech act by which an attitude is adopted.
    • As a behabitive, unsuccessful forgiveness is also connected to sincerity — in this case, a sincere willingness to work on oneself and eliminate resentment.2001, Peter Digeser, Political Forgiveness, →ISBN, page 30

Forms of behabitive

Adjective
comparativemore behabitive
superlativemost behabitive
Noun
pluralbehabitives

Questions about behabitive

What does behabitive mean?
Behabitive means adopting an attitude, by making an utterance.
What part of speech is behabitive?
Behabitive can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near behabitive in the dictionary

  1. begynne
  2. begynnynge
  3. begynnynges
  4. Beha
  5. Beha Ullah
  6. behabitive
  7. behabitives
  8. behad
  9. Behaghelian
  10. Behai
  11. Behaism

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: behabitive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “behabitive.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/behabitive. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.