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contentive

[ kuhn-ten-tiv ]

noun

Linguistics.
  1. a content word or a morpheme that is the root of a content word. Compare functor ( def 2 ).


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Woods and waterfalls beautify and enliven the landscape; shady dells and rocky glens lie within an easy walk, and the trip by rail to Pickering abounds with “contentive variety.”

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If one place of it be moorish, miry, and unpleasant, another makes a free tender of delight, and presents itself to the eye full of beauty and contentive variety.”

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They have also particular Names taken from the Inventers of them, or from their Effect; as Expulsive Bandages to drive back, Attractive to draw forward, Contentive to contain, Retentive to restrain, Divulsive to remove, Agglutinative to rejoin, &c.

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It is a healthful sickness in the soul, a pleasing passion in the heart, a contentive labour in the mind, and a peaceful trouble of the senses.

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