deletive

English

Etymology

delete +‎ -ive

Adjective

deletive (comparative more deletive, superlative most deletive)

1. Tending to delete or obliterate.

   lexical deletive rules

   • 1662, John Evelyn, Sculptura:

     the obtuser end was made more deletive , apt to put out , and obliterate

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “deletive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)