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affinitive

[ uh-fin-i-tiv ]

adjective

  1. characterized by affinity; closely related or associated.


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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ԴDza·ھi·پ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of affinitive1

First recorded in 1645–55; affinit(y) + -ive
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Example Sentences

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Iowa Board President Bruce Rastetter said he strongly supports the plan, which requires board approval once there’s an “affinitive agreement.”

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The holding group subsequently expanded by acquiring agencies like Affinitive, Partners & Napier and, earlier this week, Mercury 11, which is to be merged with Shoptology.

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Not once in all his western career had he met with an affinitive soul on which he might have leaned and so gained that chastening sense of tender dependence without which no man ever yet attained happiness.

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Calling to another affinitive soul, neither of them knowing or caring, in the all-compensative ecstasy of their own making, that they have lost anything at all!

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Many very able men who have preceded him in scientific labor, and who do not believe that "the bowels will be aroused into animation" by the exhibition of "a small strip of yellow glass three inches in depth, bordered by its affinitive violet," to the umbilical region, or that "Major Buckley developed one hundred and forty-eight persons so that they could read sentences shut up in boxes or nuts," would listen attentively to what he has to say on the anatomy of an atom, metachronism and "chromatic attraction."

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