Meanings
adjectivedissolutive (comparative more dissolutive, superlative most dissolutive)
comparative more dissolutive · superlative most dissolutive
- archaicProducing dissolution; dissolvent.
It seemed a perfect tonic to the man to seek out some long-established relationship […] and interpose his dissolutive bulk between the pair-bonding, unsticking the accretions of years, experiences, children…even love.
1996, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Bloomsbury, published 2011, page 14
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