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Fictive

adjective
1.
Adopted in order to deceive.  Synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, pretended, put on, sham.  "An assumed cheerfulness" , "A fictitious address" , "Fictive sympathy" , "A pretended interest" , "A put-on childish voice" , "Sham modesty"
2.
Capable of imaginative creation.






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"Fictive" Quotes from Famous Books



... that Jesus seems not to have known of His descent [from David]. The story of the virgin birth turns on a text from Isaiah. Of this part of the Gospel, Loisy says, 'rien n'est plus arbitraire comme exegese, ni plus faible comme narration fictive.'[66] Luke has taken more pains to compose a literary treatise than Mark or Matthew. The authorities which he follows seem to be—the source of our Mark, the so-called Matthew logia, and some other source ...
— Outspoken Essays • William Ralph Inge



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