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separative
adjective
(of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group
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ˈsɛp(ə)ɹətɪv
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adjective
(of a word) referring singly and without exception to the members of a group
“whereas ‘each’, ‘every’, ‘either’, ‘neither’, and ‘none’ are distributive or referring to a single member of a group, ‘which’ in ‘which of the men’ is separative”
adjective
serving to separate or divide into parts
“partitive tendencies in education”
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
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whereas ‘each’, ‘every’, ‘either’, ‘neither’, and ‘none’ are distributive or referring to a single member of a group, ‘which’ in ‘which of the men’ is separative
partitive tendencies in education
the uniting influence was stronger than the separative
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