disjustive
English
Adjective
disjustive (comparative more disjustive, superlative most disjustive)
- Tending to create or emphasize a difference, contrast, or lack of adjustment.
- 1893, Rufus Lewis Perry, The Cushite, Or, The Descendants of Ham:
- Both the Hebrew and the Greek say, " I am black and comely, while the Vulgate changes the copulative " and " to the disjustive " but."
- 1913 August, S.N. Patten, “The Genesis of Personal Traits”, in Popular Science, page 157:
- The milder case, where sex and sensory impressions exert a disjustive pressure, are viewed as natural traits.
- 1915, Mind and Body - Volume 21, page 411:
- An organ useful to our ancestors may in its present action be disjustive, yet vestiges of it are existent, which may be aroused by a superabundant supply of energy.
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