Ascensive
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Characterized by an ascending movement; tending to ascend; rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
Sir T. Browne.
In
grammar
, increasing force; intensive; augmentative.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adjective.
Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
adjective.
Augmentative; intensive.
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adjective.
Rising
; tending to rise, or causing to rise.
adjective.
Augmentative
;
intensive
.
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adjective.
tending or directed upward
Word Usage
"Love is “desire to enjoy beauty”; and nourished by the spiritual senses of sight and hearing alone, it is temperate, ascensive, morally beneficient."
Equivalent
ascending
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
augmentative
intensive
rising