Meaning of attritive | Babel Free

Definitions

Causing attrition.

Examples

“1858, Hugh Miller, Rambles of a Geologist, Chapter 5, in The Cruise of the Betsey; with Rambles of a Geologist, Edinburgh: Constable, p. 302, […] the clay […] had gradually been moulded, under the attritive influences of the elements, into series of alternating ridges and furrows,”

“Do you mark⟳ how the wistaria, sun-impacted on this wall here, distills and penetrates this room as though (light-unimpeded) by secret and attritive progress⟳ from mote to mote of obscurity’s myriad components?”

“That certain works did thus survive⟳ time’s attritive passage, and that people did continue⟳ to agree⟳ in their estimation of them would by no means show⟳ […] that their judgments were both objective and correct⟳.”

“From a nearby town came “crews of eager young men” who “pitched in” through the “attritive, swirling, arctic-like night.””

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