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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

enforcive en · ADJ

Etymology

From enforce + -ive.

Meanings

  1. Serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive.
    • But faith, doſt thou not ſomevvhat excuſe my ſometimes incontinency vvith her enforciue beauties. 1605, Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], The Dutch Courtezan. […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for Iohn Hodgets, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene ii:

Forms

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most enforcive Degree=Sup lexicographic
more enforcive Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

enforcively