extroitive
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin extra (“on the outside”) + ire, itum (“to go”).
Adjective edit
extroitive (comparative more extroitive, superlative most extroitive)
- (obsolete) Seeking or going out after external objects.
- c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Midsummer Night's Dream
- For women are less hypocrites to their own minds than men, because they feel less abhorrence of moral evil in itself and more for its outward consequences, as detection, loss of character, etc., their natures being almost wholly extroitive.
- c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Midsummer Night's Dream
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “extroitive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)