abstersive

abstersive
abstersiveness, n.
/ab sterr"siv/, adj.
abstergent.
[1400-50; late ME ( < MF) < ML abstersivus, equiv. to L absters(us), ptp. of abstergere (see ABSTERGENT) + -ivus -IVE]

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