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/rəflˈɛksɪv/ Listen

adjective

Reflexive adj.

Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past. "Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith."

Implying censure. (Obs.) "What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word?"

(Gram.) Having for its direct object a pronoun which refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; said of certain verbs; as, the witness perjured himself; I bethought myself. Applied also to pronouns of this class; reciprocal; reflective.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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