intensitive, a. (n.) rare.
(ɪnˈtɛnsɪtɪv)
[irreg. f. intensity + -ive.]
= intensative, intensive.
| 1817 G. S. Faber Eight Dissert. (1845) II. 197 Intensitive reduplication. 1835 New Monthly Mag. XLIV. 5 The small voice of the nightingale..seems an intensitive and a low burthen to the general anthem of the earth. 1879 L. Stephen Hours in Library Ser. iii. 167 The highest epithet applicable to Jeffrey is ‘clever’, to which we may prefix some modest intensitive. |