ASSENTIVE

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Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; as an elderly maiden's hand in marriage, to a rich and handsome suitor; a valuable franchise to a rich corporation, by an alderman; absolution to an impenitent king, by a priest, and so forth. Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.
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Rhyming with "ASSENTIVE"

Words rhyming with "ASSENTIVE" (pronounced 'As*sent"ive'): Acceptive, Adaptive, Adjustive, Adoptive, Affrontive, Appointive, Arrestive, Aspersive, Assertive, Assistive, Attemptive, Attestive, Boastive, Circumventive, Compressive, Concoctive, Conductive, Conflictive, Congestive, Connexive, Constraintive, Constrictive, constructive, Consultive, Contractive, Contradictive, Convictive, Corruptive, Deductive, Deflective, Fluxive, impressive, ineffective, inexpressive, infective, instructive, inventive, Luxive, massive, Neglective, Noneffective, Oppressive, Percussive, Perfective, Persistive, Polive, Portentive, Predictive, Presentive, Protective. (additional references)

Anagrams: ASSENTIVE

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	Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-n-s-s-t-v"
	-1 letter: etesians, naivetes, teniases.
	-2 letters: avenses, easiest, entases, entasis, etesian, invests, naivest, naivete, nasties, natives, sateens, savines, senates, sensate, sestina, sestine, tansies, tensive, tisanes, vainest, vinasse, vitesse.
	-3 letters: anises, assent, easies, enates, envies, events, evites, insets, invest, naives, native, navies, nieves, saints, sanest, sanies, sansei, sateen, satins, savine, savins, seines, senate, sevens, siesta, sieves.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-n-s-s-t-v"
	+1 letter: activeness, invertases, nativeness.
	+2 letters: advisements, amativeness, evangelists, privateness, unassertive.
	+3 letters: abortiveness, activenesses, adaptiveness, asseverating, asseveration, creativeness, everlastings, investigates, nativenesses, negativeness, nonassertive, reactiveness, reservations, sustentative, transceivers, transvestite, verticalness, vesuvianites, volatileness.
	+4 letters: amativenesses, antislaveries, assertiveness, asseverations, attentiveness, combativeness, conservatives, conservatizes, eviscerations, evocativeness, expansivities, extraversions, imitativeness, intravenouses, inviolateness, lucrativeness, misadventures, normativeness, operativeness, overasserting, overassertion, plaintiveness, preservations, privatenesses, talkativeness, tentativeness, transgressive, transvestites, unassertively, valiantnesses, veritableness, versatileness, vexatiousness.
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