Meanings
adjectiveprovisive (comparative more provisive, superlative most provisive)
comparative more provisive · superlative most provisive
- Serving to provide something.
The one provisive, the other recipient. The one the agent that acts, the other the object acted upon.
1856, Andrew Jackson McBride, Light from the Spirit World (page 186)
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