attritive
English
Etymology
attrit + -ive. From attrition
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈtraɪtɪv/
Adjective
attritive (comparative more attritive, superlative most attritive)
- Causing attrition.
- 1858, Hugh Miller, Rambles of a Geologist, Chapter 5, in The Cruise of the Betsey; with Rambles of a Geologist, Edinburgh: Constable, p. 302,
- […] the clay […] had gradually been moulded, under the attritive influences of the elements, into series of alternating ridges and furrows,
- 1936, William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! New York: Random House, Chapter 5,
- Do you mark how the wistaria, sun-impacted on this wall here, distills and penetrates this room as though (light-unimpeded) by secret and attritive progress from mote to mote of obscurity’s myriad components?
- 1999, Christopher New, Philosophy of Literature, London: Routledge, Chapter 9, p. 135,
- That certain works did thus survive time’s attritive passage, and that people did continue to agree in their estimation of them would by no means show […] that their judgments were both objective and correct.
- 2009 September 6, Tom Vanderbilt, “Up From Calamity”, in New York Times:
- From a nearby town came “crews of eager young men” who “pitched in” through the “attritive, swirling, arctic-like night.”
- 1858, Hugh Miller, Rambles of a Geologist, Chapter 5, in The Cruise of the Betsey; with Rambles of a Geologist, Edinburgh: Constable, p. 302,
Related terms
- attritional
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