Adjective
Tending to delete or destroy.
Usage- Uncommon
- Examples
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lexical deletive rules
More examples (1)
[T]he obtuſer end [of a style] vvas made more deletive, apt to put out, and obliterate, vvhen they vvould Stylum vertere [turn the style], vvhich our Burniſher (another Tool us'd by Chalcographers) and Poliſher performes.