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Meaning of ascensive | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2
əˈsɛnsɪv

Definitions

  1. Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
  2. Augmentative; intensive.

Examples

“1840-1845, Richard Owen, Odontography Had I been guided in this ascensive survey of the dental system by the general perfection of the species , I must have⟳ ended with that of Man”
“[…] it seems, however, highly probable that this is due rather to non-observance of the true ascensive force⟳ of the particle than to any real absence in the original MSS.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

ascertainable ascescent ascetic ascetical ascetick aschematic

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