dominative
Example Sentences
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I shall never forget the well-meaning feeble villain, stricken down by remorse and impending terror, and the dominative Baron bullying him the while, with words supplied piecemeal by the sufferer.
From The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography by David Christie Murray
By the same dominative power He can infringe and partially make void any marriage contract without entirely undoing it.
From Moral Philosophy by Joseph Rickaby, S.J.
The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive.
From The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
Here again a dispensation differs from an annulment, for the latter requires, not the power of jurisdiction, but only dominative or domestic power.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan
They became angry and dominative; and the more they thus exhibited themselves, the more scorn and contumely they encountered.
From An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
