What does refusive mean?

refusive

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"At least, he may claim that we should bring to him a tolerably patient and receptive mind, not a repelling, refusive mind; in a word, that we should treat him with decency, if we profess to attend to him at all."

more refusive (comparative) most refusive (superlative)

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