Word Meanings - DESTRUCTIVENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy. (more info) 1. The quality of destroying or ruining. Prynne.

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• IMPELLENT
  An impelling power or force. Glanvill.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• QUALITY
  1. The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank. We lived most joyful, obtaining acquaintance with many of the city not of the meanest
• COMMISSIONAIRE
  1. One intrusted with a commission, now only a small commission, as an errand; esp., an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services
• SUPPOSURE
  Supposition; hypothesis; conjecture. Hudibras.
• RUIN
  1. The act of falling or tumbling down; fall. "His ruin startled the other steeds." Chapman. 2. Such a change of anything as destroys it, or entirely defeats its object, or unfits it for use; destruction; overthrow; as, the ruin of a ship or
• COMMISSION
  1. The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating. Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness. South. 2. The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed.
• SUPPOSABLE
  Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case. -- Sup*pos"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*pos"a*bly, adv.
• DESTRUCTIONIST
  One who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; -- called also annihilationist. Shipley. (more info) 1. One who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy
• SUPPOSITIVE
  A word denoting or implying supposition, as the words if, granting, provided, etc. Harris.
• SUPPOSITITIOUS
  1. Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing. Bacon. 2. Suppositional; hypothetical. Woodward. -- Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ly,
• COMMISSIONAL; COMMISSIONARY
  Of pertaining to, or conferring, a commission; conferred by a commission or warrant. Delegate or commissionary authority. Bp. Hall.
• IMPEL
  To drive or urge forward or on; to press on; to incite to action or motion in any way. The surge impelled me on a craggy coast. Pope. Syn. -- To instigate; incite; induce; influence; force; drive; urge; actuate; move.
• PROPENSITY
  The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency. "A propensity to utter blasphemy." Macaulay. Syn. -- Disposition; bias; inclination; proclivity; proneness; bent; tendency.
• RUINIFORM
  Having the appearance of ruins, or of the ruins of houses; -- said of certain minerals.
• DESTROY
  destruire, F. détruire, fr. L. destruere, destructum; de + struere to 1. To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish. But ye shall destroy
• DESTRUCTION
  1. The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation. The Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction. Esth. ix. 5. 'Tis safer to be that
• RUINATION
  The act of ruining, or the state of being ruined.
• RUINER
  One who, or that which, ruins.
• SUPPOSAL
  The act of supposing; also, that which is supposed; supposition; opinion. Shak. Interest, with a Jew, never proceeds but upon supposal, at least, of a firm and sufficient bottom. South.
• PRUINOUS
  Frosty; pruinose.
• INEQUALITY
  An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
  A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
• NONCOMMISSIONED
  Not having a commission. Noncommissioned officer , a subordinate officer not appointed by a commission from the chief executive or supreme authority of the State; but by the Secretary of War or by the commanding officer of the regiment.
• UNDERFACULTY
  An inferior or subordinate faculty.
• PRESUPPOSITION
  1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
• PRUINATE
  See PRUINOSE
• EQUALITY
  Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under
• SELF-DESTRUCTION
  The destruction of one's self; self-murder; suicide. Milton.
• PRUINOSE
  Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.
• COEQUALITY
  The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.