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adjective

Discriminative adj.

Marking a difference; distinguishing; distinctive; characteristic. "That peculiar and discriminative form of life."

Observing distinctions; making differences; discriminating. "Discriminative censure." "Discriminative Providence."

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Etymology of 'Discriminative'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Discriminative" Quotes from Famous Books

... Good, or Agreeable. "A nice girl." Nice means fastidious, delicately discriminative, and the like. Pope uses the word admirably of a dandy who was skilled in the nice conduct [management] of a ...

— Write It Right - A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults • Ambrose Bierce

... overflowing evidence, in addition to that primary proof of having himself written good poems. Besides the love, he has the instinct, of literature, and this instinct draws him to what is its bloom and fullest manifestation, and his love is the more warm and constant for being discriminative and refined. Through variety of knowledge, with intellectual keenness, he enjoys excellence in the diversified forms that literature assumes. His pages abound in illustrations of his versatility, which is nowhere more strikingly ...

— Essays AEsthetical • George Calvert

... and discriminative process, that, while relentless, is in the end eminently Just, and in the end will be found to be the revealer of all that is essential and true in ...

— The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul - The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies - in Psychology • Jirah D. Buck

... Only through similies can some idea of It be conveyed. That is the reason why all the great Teachers of the world have so often taught in the form of parables. So here the Ruler of Death represents the Self as the lord of this chariot of the body. The intellect or discriminative faculty is the driver, who controls these wild horses of the senses by holding firmly the reins of the mind. The roads over which these horses travel are made up of all the external objects which attract or repel the senses:—the sense of smelling follows the path ...

— The Upanishads • Swami Paramananda

... clear and impartial judgment upon a system so alien to Western ideas and revolting to Christian morality. A vast amount of unprofitable rhetoric has been expended upon this subject. Let us turn to the princess's discriminative statement ...

— Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century • W. H. Davenport Adams

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