preceptive

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"If it was necessary, that Christ as our surety should suffer the penalty of the law in our stead, because we have sinned; then it was also necessary that as our Surety, he should yield obedience to the preceptive part of the law also;"
"It is altogether preceptive, barely containing the rules, without illustration from example. It is a system of rhetoric in the abstract."

Etymology tree English precept Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English preceptive From precept + -ive.

more preceptive (comparative) most preceptive (superlative)

preceptively

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What does preceptive mean?

Of, pertaining to, or based on precepts

Where does preceptive come from?

Etymology tree English precept Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English preceptive From precept + -ive.

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