pervertiveadj.
/pəˈvəːtɪv/, U.S. /pərˈvərdɪv/ = perversive adj. 2.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [adjective] > tending to pervert
corrupting1509
violent1535
viperine1647
perversive1862
pervertive1901
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [adjective] > perversive
perversive1753
pervertive1901
1901 H. McIntosh Is Christ Infallible? vii. 153 Their whole conception..is based upon a false and pervertive subjectivity.
1933 Italica 10 4 He feared..that the Catholic religion, which ‘exercises the senses rather than the soul’, would be pervertive to their simple faith.
1938 E. Pound Guide to Kulchur (1970) iii. vi. 164 No adequate study yet exists of the effect of Law-worship as pervertive.
1995 Internat. Jrnl. Psychol. of Relig. 5 242 Mr. E. returned to work..and began to share with his psychotherapist bizarre sexual-pervertive relationships he presumably experienced.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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