unitive

English

WOTD – 3 October 2011

Etymology

From Late Latin unitīvus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːnɪtɪv/
• Hyphenation: u‧ni‧tive

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Adjective

unitive (comparative more unitive, superlative most unitive)

1. Of, causing, or involving unity or union.
   • 1986, Jeffrey Burton Russell, Lucifer, the Devil in the Middle Ages, page 290:

     The mystics' fundamental vision was unitive: all things, including sinful creatures, are united with God.

   • 2003, Albert Joseph Mary Shamon, Firepower Through Confirmation, page 13:

     Starting with this principle, established by God, namely that sex must always be the expression of a love that is unitive (till death) and procreative (opened to life), we can arrive at a simple Sexual Ethics primer.

   • 2009, David Gershon, Social change 2.0: a blueprint for reinventing our world:

     It was unitive in that it directly asked each person to go beyond that which separates him or her from other people.

Translations

causing or involving unity

• Armenian: միավորող (miavoroġ)
• Bulgarian: обединяващ (bg) (obedinjavašt)
• Finnish: yhdistävä (fi)
• German: vereinheitlichend (de)
• Italian: unitivo
• Russian: объединя́ющий (ru) (obʺjedinjájuščij), соедини́тельный (ru) (sojedinítelʹnyj)
• Slovene: združevalen
• Spanish: unitivo

References

• “unitive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Italian

Adjective

unitive f

1. feminine plural of unitivo

Anagrams

• unitevi