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  1. remissive love

Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Slackening: relaxing; causing abatement.
  2. Remitting; forgiving; pardoning.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Remitting; forgiving; abating.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Remitting; forgiving; abating.

Etymologies

  1. Latin remissivus. See remit. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “And, O my Guardian Angel, too remissive of thy Charge! why had I not some secret Warnings of my future Fate? why did I range so long in Foreign Courts, in search of trifling Pleasures, and unavailing Knowledge, while my”

    The Fatal Secret: or, Constancy in Distress

  • “Is the nature of the cancer aggressive, stable or remissive?”

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

  • “Medea's next encounter with Jason sees her in remissive attitude, as she asks her former husband to let her have her two children back.”

    Opera Today

  • “Philip Rieff he describes the shift in Western culture from "inhibitory" to "remissive".”

    Steve Addison's blog World Changers

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