extroitive

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English

Etymology

From Latin extra (on the outside) + ire, itum (to go).

Adjective

extroitive (comparative more extroitive, superlative most extroitive)

  1. (obsolete) Seeking or going out after external objects.
    • c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Midsummer Night's Dream
      For women are less hypocrites to their own minds than men, because they feel less abhorrence of moral evil in itself and more for its outward consequences, as detection, loss of character, etc., their natures being almost wholly extroitive.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for extroitive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)