disjustive

comparative more disjustive · superlative most disjustive

1. Tending to create or emphasize a difference, contrast, or lack of adjustment.

   The milder case, where sex and sensory impressions exert a disjustive pressure, are viewed as natural traits.

   1913 August, S.N. Patten, “The Genesis of Personal Traits”, in Popular Science, page 157

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   Both the Hebrew and the Greek say, " I am black and comely, while the Vulgate changes the copulative " and " to the disjustive " but."

   1893, Rufus Lewis Perry, The Cushite, Or, The Descendants of Ham

   An organ useful to our ancestors may in its present action be disjustive, yet vestiges of it are existent, which may be aroused by a superabundant supply of energy.

   1915, Mind and Body - Volume 21, page 411