emotiven.adj.

1596 T. Lodge Wits Miserie 98 This proceedeth from a certaine pusillanimitie of their hearts, or of emotiue or feeling of dispaire.

1843 Presbyterian Rev. July 160 [Philosophic rationalism] is..removed..from the region of the emotive, to that of the intellectual, or unemotive intuitive.

1881 R. C. Praed Policy & Passion II. 30 One must feel with the emotive, see with the spiritual.

1919 Encycl. Americana XV. 168/2 Psychologists are agreed that, particularly in the case of the grosser emotions, the emotive is an instinctive consciousness.

2002 R. S. Hartman Knowl. of Good ii. 38 Supposing that the emotive is the ethical, ethics would then become the science represented by the frame of reference in question.

1725 J. Sedgwick New Treat. Liquors v. 50 Those ascending Volatiles, which lay chain'd and dormant, before the Application of concussive and emotive Heat.

1735 H. Brooke Universal Beauty iv. 121 Eternal art, Emotive, pants within the alternate heart.

1830 J. Mackintosh Diss. Progress Ethical Philos. 111 Distinction between the percipient and what, perhaps, we may now venture to call the emotive or the pathematic part of human nature.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. vii. lii. 72 It prepared her emotive nature for a deeper effect.

1909 E. A. Hayden Social Will iv. 61 The very violence of the emotive processes suspends the apperceptive activity necessary to efficient mental work.

1972 Jet 14 Sept. 52/1 Members of the media casually reported the emotive, vital and sentient dimensions of the festival.

2005 BusinessWeek 2 May 94/1 A noninvasive procedure that activates the brain's emotive centers.

1842 Brit. & Foreign Rev. 13 9 Every one recognizes this as poetry; yet change the emotive expression of it into a statement and it ceases to be poetry.

1868 H. N. Day Grammatical Synthesis xi. 195 An emotive sentence is one which expresses, instead of a judgment, a feeling or an object of feeling.

1923 C. K. Ogden & I. A. Richards Meaning of Meaning p. viii A division of the functions of language into two groups, the symbolic and the emotive.

1936 C. Day Lewis Hope for Poetry 93 A new language of purely emotive sounds (e.g. the ‘mouth-music’ of the Hebridean islanders).

1967 J. M. Argyle Psychol. Interpersonal Behaviour v. 89 People are often quite unaware of the emotive, paralinguistic aspects of their speech.

1999 Argumentation & Advocacy (Nexis) 22 Mar. 159 Words..like ‘culture’ have both a vague descriptive meaning and a rich emotive meaning.

1846 Christian Treasury 280/1 Working thus on the feelings of an emotive people, Popery wisely adapts itself to human nature in every phase.

1875 H. W. Beecher Plymouth Pulpit ix. 176 Which is the better mother, she that is intensely emotive, or she that is very practical?

1906 J. H. MacDonald tr. L. Bianchi Text-bk. Psychiatry iii. vii. 556 The subconscious..invades the field of the consciousness, and in emotive and hypersensitive persons is met by no obstacle.

1976 Guardian 22 Mar. 9/3 Men are the antithesis of women's picture of them—they are emotive, irrational, illogical beings.

2005 Time Out 7 Dec. 102/3 He'll be performing solo and with emotive Sami folk singer Mari Boine.

1847 B. H. Smart Gram. on its True Basis 121 A certain emotive effect is consequent upon the sense.

1883 H. M. Kennedy tr. B. ten Brink Early Eng. Lit. 38 The emotive passionate quality of epic diction.

1923 P. Wilde Craftsmanship of One-act Play xxiii. 214 The climax itself is an instant of supreme emotive power.

1973 Studia Islamica 81 All Islamic art has recoursed to and used the highly emotive words of the Qur'ān.

1991 A. Unterman Dict. Jewish Lore & Legend 29/1 In the State of Israel autopsies are an emotive issue.

2003 Independent 22 July i. 14/1 The 25 scientists..have highlighted the difficulties of GM farming..while eschewing frightening and emotive talk of ‘frankenfood’.

1901 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 1 78 The doctrine that art is the expression of emotion is, I venture to think, quite mistaken... Mr. Bosanquet's emotive theory of art is, of course, much more refined and philosophical than the foregoing.

1935 J. Laird Enq. Moral Notions vii. 94 Such a view..could have little plausibility unless it were allied with what I have called an emotive theory of value, i.e. that all our approval or appreciation (and our moral approval or appreciation in particular) in the end expresses some variety of our sentiment or emotion.

1989 M. H. Abrams Doing Things with Texts i. 13 Wordsworth's ‘Preface’ to Lyrical Ballads..became the single most important pronouncement of the emotive theory of poetry.

2002 R. S. Hartman Knowl. of Good v. 111 The emotive theory has no criterion for the relation between the referential and expressive meaning of value words.