Definitions
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- adj. Relating to mutation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Of or pertaining to or marked by genetic mutation{3}.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Mutatory.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. of or pertaining to or marked by genetic mutation
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Examples
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I have long contended that a good that is, a mutative interpretation is a relational process, a central constituent of which is the patient's experience of having his or her feelings understood.
Robert D. Stolorow: What Is Character and How Does it Change?
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Furthermore, it is the specific meaning of the experience of being understood that supplies its mutative power, as the patient weaves that experience into the tapestry of developmental longings mobilized by the therapeutic engagement.
Robert D. Stolorow: What Is Character and How Does it Change?
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Even though it took place within a personal rather than a therapeutic relationship, it illustrates a central and mutative dimension of the therapeutic approach to emotional trauma.
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By the time we are done, we will have transformed the politics of hope into the politics of mutative hypervigilance!
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Turning now to the Middle East, both Israelis and Palestinians are reacting in a mutative way to Secretary of State Colin Powell's major policy speech.
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And since the divergentevolution problem makes it crucial to tell the difference between mutative and allomorphic forms on this particular planet, I think we may have to reassess almost everything the survey team gave us.
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It may occur as a sudden mutative thrust, rather than the microstep by microstep advancement we've come to accept, and ninety percent of the population-those frozen in the ice pack of their bankrupt doctrines and brittle clichÃs-may be left behind.
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AIDS virus is even more mutative than that of the flu.
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In many cases they are explanations which may arise from the observation of the mutative relations between cruelty, bloodthirstiness, and sensuality.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
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The fundamentally distinct bodies, the very different occupations of both sexes, their different destinies, must have had profound mutative influence on their intelligence.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
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