extroitive

English

Etymology

From Latin extra (on the outside) + ire, itum (to go).

Adjective

extroitive (comparative more extroitive, superlative most extroitive)

  1. (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

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