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Another word for formative

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  1. See also:

    pliable

    juvenile

    impressionable

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Sentence Examples

  • An organism was to him something controlled by a formative organizing principle.

  • When this stage was reached the formative age of feudalism may be considered at an end.

  • The formative principle or force of the world is said to contain the several rational germinal forms of things.

  • But we may say that the formative age was over when these features of the system had combined to be its characteristic marks.

  • In any case, however, this myth has exercised a formative influence on the conception of Antichrist.

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