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enforcive

enforcive adjective: serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive.

Adjective

enforcive (comparative more enforcive, superlative most enforcive)

  1. Serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive.
    • But faith, doſt thou not ſomevvhat excuſe my ſometimes incontinency vvith her enforciue beauties.1605, Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], The Dutch Courtezan. […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for Iohn Hodgets, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene ii

Forms of enforcive

comparativemore enforcive
superlativemost enforcive

Origin of enforcive

From enforce + -ive.

Words formed from enforcive

  • enforcively

Questions about enforcive

What does enforcive mean?
Enforcive means serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive.
What part of speech is enforcive?
Enforcive is an adjective.

Words near enforcive in the dictionary

  1. enforcibility
  2. enforcible
  3. enforcing
  4. enforcing sadism
  5. enforcingly
  6. enforcive
  7. Enford
  8. enforest
  9. enforested
  10. enforesting
  11. enforests

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