Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to advance or promote.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Tending to advance.
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- adjective archaic Tending to
advance .
Etymologies
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advance + -ive
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He always was, and is, and always will be the incomprehensible Jehovah, and when the disembodied spirits of men shall ascend the scales of a thousand billions of rolling cycles in their advancive and serial development, they -- the mind of
Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D., 1898
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