Purposive - What does it mean?
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Serving a particular purpose; adapted to a given purpose, especially through natural evolution.
Done or performed with a conscious purpose or intent.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 191:
*:Other ecclesiastics [...] were similarly accepting of a space for purposive and beneficent human action and betterment in a disenchanted world.
(psychology) Pertaining to purpose, as reflected in behaviour or mental activity.
Pertaining to to or demonstrating purpose.
*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 78:
*:The world was generally agreed to be a purposive one, responsive to the wishes of its Creator […].
Possessed of a firm purpose; determined, resolute.
(grammar) Of a clause or conjunction: expressing purpose.
