Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Weakening; tending to make void.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Weakening; annulling, or tending to make void.
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- adjective obsolete Tending to
weaken ,annul , or makevoid .
Etymologies
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Compare French infirmatif.
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Examples
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"You mean the infirmative," Peewee shouted; "that shows how much you know about rhetoric."
Tom Slade at Black Lake Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913
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Bentham (195) a self-corroborative chain of evidence; the second, a self-infirmative chain.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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