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contentive

American  
[kuhn-ten-tiv] / kənˈtɛn tɪv /

noun

Linguistics.

  1. a content word or a morpheme that is the root of a content word.

Etymology

Origin of contentive

content 1 + -ive

Example Sentences

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It is a healthful sickness in the soul, a pleasing passion in the heart, a contentive labour in the mind, and a peaceful trouble of the senses.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

If one place of it be moorish, miry, and unpleasant, another makes a free tender of delight, and presents itself to the eye full of beauty and contentive variety.”

From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter

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