conquestive

conquestive

English

Etymology

From conquest +‎ -ive.

Adjective

conquestive

  1. (rare) Of or pertaining to conquest. [19th c.]
    • 1881, Charles Clifton Penick, “More Than a Prophet”‎[1], New York: Thomas Whittaker, pages 48–9:
      Courage, heroic and conquestive, is as really a part, and as vital a part, of truth religion as faith, hope, and charity.
    • 2015, Robert E. Wood, The Beautiful, The True and the Good: Studies in the History of Thought‎[2], Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, →ISBN, page 180:
      Therefore, complete relation to the other, full “letting it be,” implies acting upon the other to change it, stimulating it to attain to its own full unfolding—hence, the ambiguity of our situation and the danger of slipping into conquestive relations with the other , even under pretext of idealism.
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