Presentiveness

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Presentive \Pre*sent"ive\, a. (Philol.)
     Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind;
     presenting an object to the memory of imagination; --
     distinguished from symbolic.
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           How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost
           presentive power in the last three centuries. --Earle.
     [1913 Webster] -- {Pre*sent"ive*ly}, adv. --
     {Pre*sent"ive*ness}, n.
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