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oscillative

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adj

Meaning 1

Tending to oscillate; oscillatory, oscillating.

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Usage: not-comparable

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c. 1860-1861, Isaac Taylor, Logic in Theology this oscillative antagonism between incompatible paradoxes

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From oscillate + -ive.

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Derived: oscillatively, oscillativity

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