different between attritional vs attritive

English

Etymology

attrition +? -al

Adjective

attritional (comparative more attritional, superlative most attritional)

1. Of or pertaining to attrition.
   • 2009, Victoria Coren, “Ah, first love … lots of Steven Berkoff and no snogging,” The Guardian, 1 February, 2009,^[1]

     After months of attritional, heavy-handed flirting […]

Derived terms

• attritional mortality

Related terms

• attritive

Anagrams

• titrational, tralatition

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??tra?t?v/

Adjective

attritive (comparative more attritive, superlative most attritive)

1. Causing attrition.
   • 1858, Hugh Miller, Rambles of a Geologist, Chapter 5, in The Cruise of the Betsey; with Rambles of a Geologist, Edinburgh: Constable, p. 302,^[1]

     […] the clay […] had gradually been moulded, under the attritive influences of the elements, into series of alternating ridges and furrows,

   • 1936, William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! New York: Random House, Chapter 5,^[2]

     Do you mark how the wistaria, sun-impacted on this wall here, distills and penetrates this room as though (light-unimpeded) by secret and attritive progress from mote to mote of obscurity’s myriad components?

   • 1999, Christopher New, Philosophy of Literature, London: Routledge, Chapter 9, p. 135,

     That certain works did thus survive time’s attritive passage, and that people did continue to agree in their estimation of them would by no means show […] that their judgments were both objective and correct.

Related terms

• attritional

Anagrams

• titrative