unitive
English
editEtymology
editFrom Late Latin unitīvus.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈjuːnɪtɪv/
- Hyphenation: u‧ni‧tive
Audio (Northern California): (file)
Adjective
editunitive (comparative more unitive, superlative most unitive)
- Of, causing, or involving unity or union.
- 1986, Jeffrey Burton Russell, Lucifer, the Devil in the Middle Ages, page 290:
- The mystics' fundamental vision was unitive: all things, including sinful creatures, are united with God.
- 2003, Albert Joseph Mary Shamon, Firepower Through Confirmation, page 13:
- Starting with this principle, established by God, namely that sex must always be the expression of a love that is unitive (till death) and procreative (opened to life), we can arrive at a simple Sexual Ethics primer.
- 2009, David Gershon, Social change 2.0: a blueprint for reinventing our world:
- It was unitive in that it directly asked each person to go beyond that which separates him or her from other people.
Translations
editcausing or involving unity
|
References
edit- “unitive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian
editAdjective
editunitive f