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perpetuative, a.|pəˈpɛtjuːətɪv|
[f. perpetuate v. + -ive.]
Having a tendency or inclination to perpetuate.
1957P. Worsley Trumpet shall Sound 273 Such movements can be either revivalistic—stressing the readoption of customs fallen into desuetude—or perpetuative—seeking to maintain the existing order. 1977Dædalus Summer 61 My personal view is that anthropology is shifting from a stress on concepts such as structure, equilibrium, function, system to process, indeterminacy, reflexivity..but with a tender perpetuative regard for the marvellous findings of those who, teachers of the present generation, committed themselves to the discoveries of ‘systems’ of social relations and cultural ‘items’ and ‘complexes’. |