Meanings
adjectiverefusive (comparative more refusive, superlative most refusive)
comparative more refusive · superlative most refusive
- Exhibiting or relating to refusal.
At least, he may claim that we should bring to him a tolerably patient and receptive mind, not a repelling, refusive mind; in a word, that we should treat him with decency, if we profess to attend to him at all.
1883, The Book-lover's Enchiridion, page 415
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