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Separative

adjective

(used of an accent in Hebrew orthography) indicating that the word marked is separated to a greater or lesser degree rhythmically and grammatically from the word that follows it.

Serving to separate or divide into parts. Synonym: partitive. "The uniting influence was stronger than the separative"

(of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group.

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"Separative" Quotes from Famous Books

... of repeating is that "to know a limit is already to be beyond it." "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage." The inmate of the penitentiary shows by his grumbling that he is still in the stage of abstraction and of separative thought. The more keenly he thinks of the fun he might be having outside, the more deeply he ought to feel that the walls identify him with it. They set him beyond them secundum quid, in imagination, in longing, in ...

— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James

... in another colour this horizontal movement, while they are themselves affected by it, have another movement of their own, which acts with a violent separative force. This is, therefore, the first antithesis in the inner appeal, and the inclination of the colour to yellow or to ...

— Concerning the Spiritual in Art • Wassily Kandinsky