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Reflexive   /rəflˈɛksɪv/   Listen
Reflexive

noun
1.
A personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent.  Synonym: reflexive pronoun.
adjective
1.
Without volition or conscious control.  Synonyms: automatic, reflex.  "A reflex knee jerk" , "Sneezing is reflexive"
2.
Referring back to itself.  Synonym: self-referent.



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"Reflexive" Quotes from Famous Books



... affection for the under-nourished zealot, but he did owe him a life. Mikah had saved him after the crash, only to be murdered himself by this local assassin. Jason made a mental note to kill the man just as soon as he was physically up to it, at the same time he was a little astonished at his reflexive acceptance of the need for this blood-thirsty atonement of a life for a life. Apparently his long stay on Pyrrus had trodden down his normal dislike for killing except in self-defense and from what he had seen so far of this world the Pyrran training would certainly be most useful. ...
— The Ethical Engineer • Henry Maxwell Dempsey



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