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/dɪvˈaɪsɪv/ Listen

adjective

Divisive adj.

Indicating division or distribution.

Creating, or tending to create, division, separation, or difference. "It (culture) is after all a dainty and divisive quality, and can not reach to the depths of humanity."

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Etymology of 'Divisive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Divisive" Quotes from Famous Books

... nothing more divisive than wealth. As families grow rich their members frequently become alienated. It is rarely, indeed, that love increases with the increase of riches. Luxurious possessions appear to be a forcing-bed in which the seeds of sleeping vices waken into strength. For one thing, selfishness ...

— My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year • John Henry Jowett

... return, will answer for great bodies of Christians organizing themselves to Christianize the world. No institution can remain changeless in a changing world. "The one immutable factor in institutions," writes Professor Pollard, "is their infinite mutability." Almost all the divisive factors in Christendom are taken out of the past, by those who claim that a certain polity or creed or practice is that authoritatively prescribed for all time, by Christ Himself, or by His Spirit ...

— Some Christian Convictions - A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking • Henry Sloane Coffin