Etymology

perversive

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Today it means: Tending to pervert. Full definition →

Latin pervers-
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  1. Latin · derived frompervers-
  2. English todayperversive

From Latin pervers-, the past participial stem of pervertō, + -ive.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.