Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Infective quality or power.
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- noun The state or quality of being
infective .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The public's attention, to the degree the public's attention can be focused on the sometimes difficult issues to both analyze, understand, to discuss, whether it be the unfunded liabilities or the infectiveness of government and waste in government.
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The disease is evidently due to a specific virus of great infectiveness, and is more active and contagious at certain seasons and under certain conditions of the atmosphere.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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The attachment is the first document that clearly proves that technical advisers had voiced early concerns to the administration of former US president George W. Bush about the infectiveness of imposing severe physical or psychological pressure.
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