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Separative

adjective
1.
(used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it.
2.
Serving to separate or divide into parts.  Synonym: partitive.  "The uniting influence was stronger than the separative"
3.
(of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group.





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"Separative" Quotes from Famous Books



... more forcibly exemplify the separative spirit of the Greek arts than their comedy as opposed to their tragedy. But as the immediate struggle of contraries supposes an arena common to both, so both were alike ideal; that is, the comedy of Aristophanes rose to as great a distance above the ludicrous ...
— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge


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