normative

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From Latin norma + -ative. Compare French normatif.

The Physiocrats regarded the “order” as one that was to be realised, and the science of political economy as essentially normative. — A history of economic doctrines : $b from the time of the physiocrats to the present day, Charles Gide
Although the former (we are thinking of neglect) is undoubtedly only too true the case he cites of nurses forgetting to count the sponges in the peritoneal cavity is too rare to be normative. — Ulysses, James Joyce

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