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Penetrative adj.

Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. "His look became keen and penetrative."

Having the power to affect or impress the mind or heart; impressive; as, penetrative shame.

Acute; discerning; sagacious; as, penetrative wisdom. "The penetrative eye." "Led on by skill of penetrative soul."

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Etymology of 'Penetrative'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Penetrative" Quotes from Famous Books

... race has gathered in its corporate experience through the ages. The valuable content of his message, so far as he succeeds in delivering one, the ideas with which his words are freighted, bear the marks of the slow accumulations of spiritual experience, and they reveal the rich and penetrative influence of the social group in which the mystic's inner life formed and ripened. They have a history as ...

— Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries • Rufus M. Jones

... growth were symmetrical. Her mind was quick, penetrative, and in constant exercise. Truthful and upright, her soul shone through her form and features, as a clear flame, placed within a transparent vase, brings out the adornments of flower, leaf, and gem, with which ...

— Adele Dubois - A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick • Mrs. William T. Savage

... great question as to the point at which the contest between shot and armour will be brought to a standstill. That it cannot proceed indefinitely may be confidently taken for granted. The plate-makers thicken their armour while the gun-makers enlarge the size and increase the penetrative power of their weapons, until the weight that has to be carried on a battle-ship renders the ...

— Twentieth Century Inventions - A Forecast • George Sutherland

... image, from this toil of clay Already freed, with eager joy who hail'd The mirror of eternal truth unveil'd, Mid light effulgent and celestial day:— I, more than cherub, whose unfetter'd soul With penetrative glance aspir'd to flow Through nature's veins, and, still creating, know The life of gods,—how am I punish'd now! One thunder-word hath hurl'd me from ...

— Faust Part 1 • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

... forgotten the other man. But now I noticed that the pseudo-bandits wore a watchful and not unhopeful air. And suddenly one of them whistled—a thin, shrill note that had, as Tish later remarked, great penetrative power without being noisy. ...

— Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions • Mary Roberts Rinehart

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