disjunctive

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  1. adjective Serving to separate or divide.
  2. adjective Grammar Serving to establish a relationship of contrast or opposition. The conjunction but in the phrase poor but comfortable is disjunctive.
  3. adjective Logic Of a proposition that presents two or more alternative terms.

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  • In short, we need a conjunctive, not disjunctive, approach. —  CathNews
  • Whittington brightens the dark moments in Skowronek's model — for example, omitting the category of "disjunctive" presidencies, failed attempts at affiliation — as he refines it to explain the development of judicial supremacy. —  Claremont.org
  • The ragged, disjunctive, and incoherent quality of the counter-script to which we testify cannot be smoothed or made seamless. —  Progressive Bloggers
  • The requirement - normally referred to as the "contextual element" of genocide - is disjunctive: the conduct that satisfies the actus reus of the crime must either be committed as part of a genocidal policy or plan or be capable of directly effecting the total or partial destruction of a protected group. —  Opinio Juris
  • First, as noted earlier, the contextual element is disjunctive: it can be satisfied either by a genocidal plan or policy or by isolated conduct capable of destroying a protected group in whole or in part. —  Opinio Juris
 

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  1. = Old French disjoinctif, F. disjonctif = Spanish disyuntivo = Portuguese disjunetivo = Italian disgiuntivo, from Late Latin disjunctivus or dijunctivus, from L. disjunctus, past participle of disjungere, disjoin: see disjunct, disjoin.
 

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/dɪsˈdʒəŋktɪv/
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