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supportive, a.|səˈpɔətɪv|
[f. support v. + -ive.]
Having the quality of supporting; affording support; sustaining. (lit. and fig.)
1593Nashe Christ's T. Ep. Ded., To the supportiue perpetuating of your canonized reputation, wholie this booke haue I destined. 1689Thoughts Justice Gentl. Undertaking at York 1 These Laws are not destructive but supportive of one another, and all supportive of Man. 1887Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. Nov. 97 Nor is the collapse of supportive tissue beneath, which has been suggested as a cause of abnormal dermal sensations [etc.]. 1908Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. XIV. 49 The architecture was harmonious, and mutually attractive and supportive. 1954H. C. Shands in Amer. Jrnl. Orthopsychiatry XXIV. 84 It is necessary that the anxious individual have available a supportive pattern of relationship to depend upon through the learning period. 1962Henderson & Gillespie Text-bk. Psychiatry xi. 286 This sort of supportive psychotherapy is relevant in every case. 1965Listener 30 Sept. 501/3 Supportive material, notes by the editor, and letters by other hands are made to fill in the picture. 1972Science 20 Oct. 229/3 She appears to interpret her findings as supportive of a smaller proportion of genetic variance among blacks than among whites. 1973Black Panther 23 June 6/2 She has vein trouble in her legs for which she wears supportive stockings. 1978G. Vidal Kalki vi. 149 ‘Senator White says that..he's going to call Mr. Kalki, as a witness... Will Mr. Kalki be supportive?’ ‘Hopefully, Kalki is supportive of all of us all of the time and for all time.’ 1980Daily Tel. 6 Dec. 12/4 Most American psychotherapists now advertise themselves as ‘supportive’.
Hence suˈpportiveness.
1968A. J. Tannenbaum in H. L. Foster Ribbin' (1974) i. 4 They have worked with the children..in order to win their confidence and provide supportiveness. 1978Nature 17 Aug. 698/1 We have also tried to determine whether there was a dorso-ventral pattern of host supportiveness of tumour growth.
Add: suˈpportively adv.
1976Harvard Business Rev. July–Aug. 34/1 Should the person work closely and supportively with subordinates for task accomplishment? 1988Los Angeles Times 19 June iv. 5/1 The name of the game is people and learning to deal effectively and supportively with people. |