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Definition of Suppressive
1. Adjective. Tending to suppress. "The government used suppressive measures to control the protest"
Definition of Suppressive
1. a. Tending to suppress; subduing; concealing.
Definition of Suppressive
1. Adjective. That serves to suppress ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Suppressive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suppressive
Literary usage of Suppressive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theory of Legislation by Jeremy Bentham, Etienne Dumont, Richard Hildreth (1840)
"In determining the punishment, reference must be had to the intentions of the
offender; in applying preventive and suppressive remedies, we must take into ..."
2. A History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B by George Finlay (1877)
"THE POLICY AND CONDUCT OF SULTAN MAHMUD II. Policy of Sultan Mahmud.—suppressive
measures and first executions of Greeks.— Execution of the Patriarch ..."
3. Annual report of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the by United States Public Health Service (1921)
"PLAGUE suppressive MEASURES. The operations for the control of plague in California
have ... Plague suppressive measures have been continued in New Orleans, ..."
4. History of the Greek Revolution by George Finlay (1861)
"POLICY OP SULTAN MAHMUD—suppressive MEASURES AND FIRST EXECUTIONS OP GREEKS—EXECUTION
OF THE PATRIARCH ..."
5. The Country School: A Study of Its Foundations, Relations, Developments by Homer Horatio Seerley (1913)
"... remarkable kinds that are beautiful to look upon, but suppressive in result
and training. Such a system does not train in self-control or self- ..."
6. The Country School: A Study of Its Foundations, Relations, Developments by Homer Horatio Seerley (1913)
"There is such a thing as attempting to compel order and conduct of remarkable
kinds that are beautiful to look upon, but suppressive in result and training. ..."
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