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Interventiveness vs Interventive - What's the difference?

interventiveness | interventive | Derived terms |

Interventiveness is a derived term of interventive.


As an adjective interventive is

serving to intervene or interpose; intervening.

interventive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Serving to intervene or interpose; intervening.
  • * {{quote-book, 1817, William Jones, Studies of Chess, chapter=Towards attaining a fixed Principle on a contested Elementary Point, page=405, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=UvMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA405
  • , passage=The Laws, or Interventive Regulations, obviate or decide disputes, between players, respecting punctilios in placing the board and pieces, and limit the penalties for irregularities.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1997, date=June 20, author=Angela Bowman, title=Labor Dispute, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=In a hospital setting, midwives are following protocols that are part of a more interventive model of care. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 27, author=, title=Same-Sex Marriage: Parsing the Arguments (1 Letter), work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=His opposition to same-sex marriage rests upon two familiar conservative notions: the view that interventive “protection” rather than encouragement is the best way to bolster the presumably threatened institution of marriage

    Derived terms

    * interventively * interventiveness