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adjective
Selective  adj.  Selecting; tending to select. "This selective providence of the Almighty."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Selective" Quotes from Famous Books



... normally exists between animals of different species rests on a selective basis, the hereditary mneme of their reciprocal germs being unable to place itself in homophony, and their blood also having a mutual toxic action. In speaking of sodomy we shall see that this instinctive repulsion ...
— The Sexual Question - A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study • August Forel

... Scriptures for them, and even then, as the rules in the Scriptures are contradictory—both as between Scriptures and within any given Scripture—they must call in the help of Intuition and Utility in the making of their code, in their selective process. This selective process will be largely moulded by the public opinion of their country and age, emphasising some precepts and ignoring others, and the code will be the expression of the average morality of the time. If this clumsy and ...
— The Basis of Morality • Annie Besant



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