infective

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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From infect + -ive.

For whether it were that her wit in continuance did find that Zelmane’s friendship was full of impatient desire, having more than ordinary limits, and therefore she was content to second Zelmane, though herself knew not the limits, or that in truth, true love, well considered, hath an infective power, at last she fell in acquaintance with love’s harbinger, wishing; first she would wish that they two might live all their lives together, like two of Diana’s nymphs. — The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Philip Sidney

morbific, pathogenic

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