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Reflexive   Listen
adjective
Reflexive  adj.  
1.
Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past. "Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith."
2.
Implying censure. (Obs.) "What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word?"
3.
(Gram.) Having for its direct object a pronoun which refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; said of certain verbs; as, the witness perjured himself; I bethought myself. Applied also to pronouns of this class; reciprocal; reflective.





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