constructional love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to construction, in any sense of that word; specifically, deduced from construction or interpretation.
  • Controlled by the original and still prevailing surface attitude and structure of the land: said of watercourses. See consequent and attitude.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or obtained by construction.

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Examples

  • If the drawing is inaccurate overall shape is important, not details, the dysfunction is called constructional dyspraxia.

    The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

  • By imputing white supremacist ideas to usually a few misled as well as aroused individuals, a real POWER of constructional systemic as well as ideological Whiteness is done invisible as well as a dominant energy is serve strengthened.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • Mind you, I have no idea what the constructional procedures for removing the President in Honduras might be, but this doesn’t sound too bad to me.

    Discourse.net: The Telling Link Tags 2009

  • In my comment above I mentioned "constructional procedure."

    Discourse.net: The Telling Link Tags 2009

  • By imputing white supremacist ideas to usually a few misled as well as aroused individuals, a real POWER of constructional systemic as well as ideological Whiteness is done invisible as well as a dominant energy is serve strengthened.

    Ethical Democracy As Lived Practice: The Murder of Marcelo Lucero ... admin 2009

  • Please Note: For constructional reasons I am unable to post anything new this week.

    You Have Mistaken Me For Someone Else « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • In The Logical Structure of the World, Rudolph Carnap attempts to show how a "constructional system" can be built the purpose of which is "to order the objects of all sciences into a system according to their reducibility to one another."

    Philosophy and Literature 2009

  • Systemic, constructional as well as ideological constructions of Whiteness which were central in to attempted attempted murder of Marcelo Lucero.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • I think Niffenegger uses time travel with considerably greater panache than many writers, and I especially liked the way she deals with the immediate difficulties of her male character's plunges through time (though not the 'scientific' explanation for them), but the constructional problem remains.

    MIND MELD: The Tricky Trope of Time Travel 2009

  • Systemic, constructional as well as ideological constructions of Whiteness which were central in to attempted attempted murder of Marcelo Lucero.

    Ethical Democracy As Lived Practice: The Murder of Marcelo Lucero ... admin 2009

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