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enticive en · ADJ

Etymology

From entice + -ive.

Meanings

1. (rare) Synonym of enticing.
   • And plainly, Sir, / If there are native wenches on this island, / As your enticive company suggests, / Stay them exempt till I recall my sailors. 1923, Christopher Morley, “Tropes and Tropics”, in Parsons’ Pleasure, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 26:
   • It made no sense to try to integrate our group into a population whose standards were too high. In order for a model to become an effective object of imitation, an optimum balance of distance and proximity is vital. If the object is too far removed from the imitator, he will not become sensitive to and perceptive of it. If too closely related, it would lose its enticive quality, or even worse, it would be altogether ineffective in remodelling existing behavior. 1971, Reuven Feuerstein, David Krasilowsky, “The Treatment Group Technique”, in Martin Wolins, Meir Gottesmann, editors, Group Care: An Israeli Approach: The Educational Path of Youth Aliyah, New York, N.Y.: Gordon and Breach, →LCCN, →OCLC, part II (Socializing Settings), section B (Youth Villages), page 152:
   • Those soft eyes so amorous—gleaming; / Looks of love enticive, beaming? 1913, William Lowe, “The Belle of the Ball”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: Richard G. Badger/The Gorham Press, →OCLC, page 78:

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Synonyms

enticing