Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to modify or produce change in form or condition; modifying.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending or serving to modify; modifying.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
modifying manner; tending or serving tomodify .
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Examples
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This one fact speaks volumes as to the credibility of the lists of monarchs, and also as to the modificatory influence of the Men's-State trend.
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-- Economic considerations, as we see, have a highly important modificatory influence on prostitution, although it is by no means correct to assert that they form its main cause.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899
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Morality bears, neither in its progressive realization nor in its guilty perversion, the character of historicalness, — is in no respect a power essentially modificatory of universal history, and consciously aiming at such modification as its end; and even the ideal state is and remains simply the very limited activity-sphere of a special moral virtuosity of the governing individual spirit, without a higher world-historical purpose in relation to the totality of humanity. —
Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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