fictive

Example Sentences

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We next enter a fictive chapel, with the Latin rite being celebrated by a set of crimson vestments and an altar cloth, made in Paris in 1619 and given by Louis XIII.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

“As narrator and all the characters, one is holding the entire fictive universe like Atlas,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2025

One pathway for change is identifying and funding more opportunities to place youths with relatives or fictive kin — people with whom they have social, not familial, ties.

From Washington Post • May 27, 2022

Steven Hyman, former head of the NIMH, called them fictive diagnostic categories.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2022

At close range, though, they were an arresting party—at least to me, who had never seen anything like them, and to whom they suggested a variety of picturesque and fictive qualities.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt