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incensive

incensive adjective: tending to excite, provoke or stir up emotions; inflammatory.

Adjective

incensive (comparative more incensive, superlative most incensive)

  1. Tending to excite, provoke or stir up emotions; inflammatory.
    • incensive aspects of the soul
    • To be extremely hated and inhumanly persecuted , without any fault committed or just occasion offered, is greatly incensive of human passiona. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number)”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn]...

Forms of incensive

comparativemore incensive
superlativemost incensive

Origin of incensive

From incense + -ive.

Questions about incensive

What does incensive mean?
Incensive means tending to excite, provoke or stir up emotions; inflammatory.
What part of speech is incensive?
Incensive is an adjective.

Words near incensive in the dictionary

  1. incenses
  2. incensey
  3. incensing
  4. incension
  5. incensions
  6. incensive
  7. incensole
  8. incensor
  9. incensories
  10. incensors
  11. incensory

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