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suppressive, a.|səˈprɛsɪv|
[f. L. suppress-: see suppress and -ive.]
Having the quality or effect of suppressing.
1778Johnson 25 Apr. in Boswell, I consider it as a very difficult question..whether one should advise a man not to publish a work, if profit be his object... I should scruple much to give a suppressive vote. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) II. 232 The miasm it [sc. typhus] generates, though more suppressive or exhaustive of sensorial energy, is less volatile, than that of marsh-lands. 1860Froude Hist. Eng. xxxv. VI. 529 The use of strong suppressive measures to keep down the unruly tendencies of uncontrolled fanatics. 1885W. H. White Mark Rutherford's Deliv. ii. (1892) 25 Nor was it even possible for any single family to emerge amidst such altogether suppressive surroundings.
Hence suˈppressively adv.
1837Carlyle Misc. Ess., Mirabeau, The former set of pangs he..crushes down into his soul suppressively. |