enforcive

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adjective

Serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive.

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Meanings

adjectiveenforcive (comparative more enforcive, superlative most enforcive)

comparative more enforcive · superlative most enforcive

  1. Serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive.

    But faith, doſt thou not ſomevvhat excuſe my ſometimes incontinency vvith her enforciue beauties.

    1605, Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], The Dutch Courtezan. […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for Iohn Hodgets, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene ii

Origin

From enforce + -ive.

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