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interventive

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English

Etymology

From intervene +‎ -ive cognate with French interventive.

Pronunciation

Adjective

interventive (comparative more interventive, superlative most interventive)

  1. Serving to intervene or interpose; intervening.
    • 1817, William Jones, “Towards attaining a fixed Principle on a contested Elementary Point”, in Studies of Chess, page 405:
      The Laws, or Interventive Regulations, obviate or decide disputes, between players, respecting punctilios in placing the board and pieces, and limit the penalties for irregularities.
    • 1997 June 20, Angela Bowman, “Labor Dispute”, in Chicago Reader‎:
      In a hospital setting, midwives are following protocols that are part of a more interventive model of care.
    • 2007 June 27, “Same-Sex Marriage: Parsing the Arguments (1 Letter)”, in New York Times‎:
      His opposition to same-sex marriage rests upon two familiar conservative notions: the view that interventive “protection” rather than encouragement is the best way to bolster the presumably threatened institution of marriage […] .

Derived terms

  • interventively
  • interventiveness

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German

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)

Adjective

interventive

  1. inflection of interventiv:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

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