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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Reductive  \Re*duc"tive\  (-t?v),  a.  [Cf.  F.  r['e]ductif.] 
  Tending  to  reduce;  having  the  power  or  effect  of  reducing.  -- 
  n.  A  reductive  agent.  --Sir  M.  Hale. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  reductive 
  adj  :  characterized  by  or  causing  diminution  or  curtailment; 
  "their  views  of  life  were  reductive  and  depreciabory" 
  R.H.Rovere 




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