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discerptive

discerptive adjective: tending to separate or disunite parts.

Adjective

discerptive (comparative more discerptive, superlative most discerptive)

  1. (obsolete) Tending to separate or disunite parts.
    • The Christology of Eutyches he deemed to be discerptive, because it did not concede to the humanity the capability of possessing the divine as its own1861, Isaak August Dorne, History of the development of the doctrine of the Person of Christ

Forms of discerptive

comparativemore discerptive
superlativemost discerptive

Questions about discerptive

What does discerptive mean?
Discerptive means tending to separate or disunite parts.
What part of speech is discerptive?
Discerptive is an adjective.

Words near discerptive in the dictionary

  1. discerptibility
  2. discerptible
  3. discerptibleness
  4. discerption
  5. discerptions
  6. discerptive
  7. discerptor
  8. discerptors
  9. discers
  10. discession
  11. discette

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