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unabortive

unabortive adjective: not abortive.

Adjective

unabortive (comparative more unabortive, superlative most unabortive)

  1. Not abortive.
    • Hopes unabortive, if the Doctrine taught Fashion the Manners, into Habit wrought.1753, Joannes Freinshemius, The Vindication: or Day-Thoughts on Wisdom and Goodness: Occasioned by the Complaint; or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality
    • Say, by thy babes (if e'er that womb has strove With unabortive child-birth throes)1841, The Epodes and Secular Ode of Horace. Translated by F. Howes

Forms of unabortive

comparativemore unabortive
superlativemost unabortive

Origin of unabortive

From un- + abortive.

Questions about unabortive

What does unabortive mean?
Unabortive means not abortive.
What part of speech is unabortive?
Unabortive is an adjective.

Words near unabortive in the dictionary

  1. unabolishing
  2. Unabomber
  3. unabort
  4. unaborted
  5. unaborting
  6. unabortive
  7. unaborts
  8. unabr.
  9. unabraded
  10. unabrased
  11. unabrasive

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