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Definition of Perversive
1. Adjective. Tending to corrupt or pervert.
Definition of Perversive
1. a. Tending to pervert.
Definition of Perversive
1. Adjective. Tending to pervert. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Perversive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perversive
Literary usage of Perversive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Andover Review (1890)
"Such a board may be quite convinced that some new speculation is " perversive,
divisive," and generally dangerous. New views uniformly appear so to those ..."
2. A Narrative and Exposition of the Late Proceedings of New England Yearly by John Wilbur (1845)
"To which the writer replies, that seeing the doctrines alluded to are easily
proved to be fundamentally unsound, and. tangibly perversive of Quakerism, ..."
3. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1894)
"... the end of contest. This result is largely due to library training. Some may
deprecate such a result as perversive of manly vigor. ..."
4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1915)
"... were detrimental to the morals and perversive of true education." In denial
of any grievance of complainant under the act the answer alleges the ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1889)
"... so far as we have observed, are perversive. FPH THE LIFE INSURANCE EXAMINER.
A PRACTICAL TREATISE UPON MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS FOR LIFE INSURANCE. ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1888)
"economy, which is pronounced impracti. and perversive. Finally, the new school
lacks the great essential of a reason for ex- . and, ..."
7. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"These divisive and perversive questions were the rock upon which Roman Catholic
missions in China ultimately split. The talents of Adam Schaal, ..."
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