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Purposive   Listen
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Purposive  adj.  Having or indicating purpose or design. "Purposive characters." "Purposive modification of structure in a bone." "It is impossible that the frog should perform actions morepurposive than these."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Purposive" Quotes from Famous Books



... and should never be confused with sex. It is a great motion in the opposite direction. And I am sure that the ultimate, greatest desire in men is this desire for great purposive activity. When man loses his deep sense of purposive, creative activity, he feels lost, and is lost. When he makes the sexual consummation the supreme consummation, even in his secret soul, he falls into the beginnings of despair. When he makes woman, or the woman and child the great center of life and of ...
— Fantasia of the Unconscious • D. H. Lawrence



Words linked to "Purposive" :   goal-directed



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