regulative

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English regulate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English regulative

    From regulate + -ive.

    Adjective

    regulative

    1. Of or relating to regulation; having a regulatory function.
      • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 355, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish):
        Interpreting Marx as they did, they expected a long period of capitalist conditions and regarded socialism either as a distant prospect with little practical meaning at the present time, or as a regulative moral norm.

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