[1820–30; denote + -ive]This word is first recorded in the period 1820–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: analogue, blouse, karma, morphology, phonetic-ive is a suffix of adjectives (and nouns of adjectival origin) expressing tendency, disposition,function, connection, etc. Other words that use the affix -ive include: active, corrective, destructive, detective, passive
Examples of 'denotive' in a sentence
denotive
A strictly denotive name expresses no one quality or character, but embraces all qualities and characters.
J. W. Powell On the Evolution of Language (1881). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)