Meanings
- rareOf or pertaining to conquest.First known use 19th c.
Courage, heroic and conquestive, is as really a part, and as vital a part, of truth religion as faith, hope, and charity.
1881, Charles Clifton Penick, “More Than a Prophet”, New York: Thomas Whittaker, pages 48–91 more example
Therefore, complete relation to the other, full “letting it be,” implies acting upon the other to change it, stimulating it to attain to its own full unfolding—hence, the ambiguity of our situation and the danger of slipping into conquestive relations with the other , even under pretext of idealism.
2015, Robert E. Wood, The Beautiful, The True and the Good: Studies in the History of Thought, Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, →ISBN, page 180
Origin
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