Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the power of infusion; capable of infusing or imbuing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the power of infusion; inspiring; influencing.
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- adjective Having the power of
infusion ; inspiring; influencing.
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Examples
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Father Chaucer! shall from that infusive touch renew vitality and vigour, and go forth exultingly to scale, not Olympus, but Parnassus.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various
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He describes a garden with its harem of flowers, a grove with its orchestry of song-birds making melody in their love, the rough world of brutes, furious and fierce with their strong desire, and lastly man tempered by its infusive influence.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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The wheel, rose, garden, and mirror are the 'cornerstones' of Hunter's circles; they define the flesh of dreams ... organic yet plastic enough to lend themselves to his wonderfully infusive re-spiritualization of humanity.
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The adhesive leader (who seems to share the followers’ attitudes) is opposite in every respect to the infusive (inspiring and influential) type, according to Nafe, who added the following additional categories to his taxonomy: static versus dynamic, impressors versus expressors, volunteer versus drafted, general versus specialized, temporary versus permanent, conscious versus unconscious, professional versus amateur, and personal versus impersonal.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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The adhesive leader (who seems to share the followers’ attitudes) is opposite in every respect to the infusive (inspiring and influential) type, according to Nafe, who added the following additional categories to his taxonomy: static versus dynamic, impressors versus expressors, volunteer versus drafted, general versus specialized, temporary versus permanent, conscious versus unconscious, professional versus amateur, and personal versus impersonal.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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