expulsive
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In addition to the Alien franchise making its grand expulsive return this spring, doppelgänger release Life will likewise set an intelligent life form on a crew of unsuspecting astronauts trapped on a spacecraft.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2017
The only salvation of the soul lies in the kindling of a new passion, the lighting of the fire of a new intention, the expulsive power, as it has been called, of a new affection.
From Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion by Francis Greenwood Peabody
It was clear that I had not yet reached the age of the grand expulsive passion which ignores partage.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Surely because, to use the forcible language of Chalmers, “the expulsive power of a superior affection” had begun to make such exhibitions distasteful to him.
From Amos Huntingdon by Theodore P. Wilson
The lesions produced in the extreme expulsive efforts of the paroxysm form favorable niduses for the micro-organism.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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