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Formative   /fˈɔrmətɪv/   Listen
adjective
Formative  adj.  
1.
Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts. "The meanest plant can not be raised without seed, by any formative residing in the soil."
2.
(Gram.) Serving to form; derivative; not radical; as, a termination merely formative.
3.
(Biol.) Capable of growth and development; germinal; as, living or formative matter.


noun
Formative  n.  (Gram.)
(a)
That which serves merely to give form, and is no part of the radical, as the prefix or the termination of a word.
(b)
A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root.





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"Formative" Quotes from Famous Books



... there to be said about her? Well, she does not leave; she stays here to complete the picture of the woman Torsen, child of the middle class who has read schoolbooks all through her formative years, who has learned all about Artemis cotula, but undernourished her soul. That is ...
— Look Back on Happiness • Knut Hamsun
... is not controverted; he is overlooked. It constitutes the kind of faith which is the implication, rather than the object, of thought, and consciously or unconsciously it enters largely into our personal lives as a formative influence. We may distrust and dislike much that is done in the name of our country by our fellow-countrymen; but our country itself, its democratic system, and its ...
— The Promise Of American Life • Herbert David Croly
... Russell Conwell's life in these formative days of boyhood who unconsciously had much to do with the course of his ...
— Russell H. Conwell • Agnes Rush Burr
... Government, the weakness of the administration was such that only a bare majority of the House of Representatives was secured after a vigorous and aggressive campaign on the part of the Republican Party. Thus do the circumstances and incidents of the formative period in Mr. Lincoln's career illustrate and adorn the events that distinguished the man, the ...
— Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 • George S. Boutwell
... read.... All the finer expressions of the human mind and hand gave him deep joy. His love and divination for the good and the true were the same that characterized the rarest minds of our ancestors, who had access only to a few noble books in their formative years. And Bedient's was the expanded and fortified intelligence of one who has ...
— Fate Knocks at the Door - A Novel • Will Levington Comfort


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