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Definition of Tentatives
1. tentative [n] - See also: tentative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tentatives
Literary usage of Tentatives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Papal Conclaves, as They Were and as They are by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1876)
"... I. First tentatives. THE system by which the Pope appoints a body of men who
become the electors of a new Pope has not been invented, but has grown. ..."
2. Major General Ambrose E. Burnside and the Ninth Army Corps: A Narrative of by Augustus Woodbury (1867)
"Those who were engaged in the strife did not consider their " tentatives" frivolous.
There were no better troops in the Army of the ..."
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