单词 |
appraisive |
释义 |
appraisive, a.|əˈpreɪzɪv| [f. appraise v. + -ive.] Of language, etc.: used in making, or of the type used in making, appraisals or valuations. Hence aˈppraisively adv.
1934in Webster. 1946C. W. Morris Signs, Lang. & Behav. v. 129 The work itself does not, as fiction, appraisively signify. Ibid. 136 Poetry may serve as an example of discourse which is primarily appraisive-valuative. Ibid. 138 Appraisive-incitive discourse may be illustrated by the language of morality. Ibid. 140 ‘Criticism’ (or ‘evaluation’) serves to illustrate appraisive-systemic discourse. 1956J. Whatmough Lang. vi. 88 The merely designative use of language has in each case become appraisive. 1967Nabokov Speak, Memory (ed. 2) ii. 40 Her grim father would..give the heaviest racket an appraisive shake. |

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