Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending or having power to transfuse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to transfuse; having power to transfuse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective able to
transfuse
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Examples
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This power of the Negro to suck up the national spirit from the soil and create something artistic and original, which, at the same time, possesses the note of universal appeal, is due to a remarkable racial gift of adaptability; it is more than adaptability, it is a transfusive quality.
Preface James Weldon Johnson 1922
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And the Negro has exercised this transfusive quality not only here in America, where the race lives in large numbers, but in European countries, where the number has been almost infinitesimal.
Preface James Weldon Johnson 1922
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And the Negro has exercised this transfusive quality not only here in
The Book of American Negro Poetry James Weldon Johnson 1904
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This power of the Negro to suck up the national spirit from the soil and create something artistic and original, which, at the same time, possesses the note of universal appeal, is due to a remarkable racial gift of adaptability; it is more than adaptability, it is a transfusive quality.
The Book of American Negro Poetry James Weldon Johnson 1904
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