extroitive
English
Etymology
From Latin extra (“on the outside”) + ire, itum (“to go”).
Adjective
extroitive (comparative more extroitive, superlative most extroitive)
- (obsolete, rare) Seeking or going out after external objects.
- c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Midsummer Night's Dream
- For women are less hypocrites to their own minds than men, because they feel less abhorrence of moral evil in itself and more for its outward consequences, as detection, loss of character, etc., their natures being almost wholly extroitive.
- extroitive conduct
- c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Midsummer Night's Dream
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References
- “extroitive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.