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conquestive

conquestive adjective: of or pertaining to conquest.

Adjective

conquestive

  1. (rare) Of or pertaining to conquest.
    • Courage, heroic and conquestive, is as really a part, and as vital a part, of truth religion as faith, hope, and charity.1881, Charles Clifton Penick, “More Than a Prophet”, New York: Thomas Whittaker, pages 48–9
    • Therefore, complete relation to the other, full “letting it be,” implies acting upon the other to change it, stimulating it to attain to its own full unfolding—hence, the ambiguity of our situation and the danger of slipping into conquestive relations with the other , even under pretext of idealism.2015, Robert E. Wood, The Beautiful, The True and the Good: Studies in the History of Thought, Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, →ISBN, page 180

Origin of conquestive

From conquest + -ive.

Questions about conquestive

What does conquestive mean?
Conquestive means of or pertaining to conquest.
What part of speech is conquestive?
Conquestive is an adjective.

Words near conquestive in the dictionary

  1. conquest
  2. conquest sale
  3. conquest sales
  4. conquested
  5. conquesting
  6. conquestive
  7. conquestor
  8. conquestors
  9. conquests
  10. conquian
  11. conquinamine

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