interventive

From intervene +‎ -ive cognate with French interventive.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪntɚvɛntəv/

interventive (comparative more interventive, superlative most interventive)

1. Serving to intervene or interpose; intervening.
   • 1817, William Jones, “Towards attaining a fixed Principle on a contested Elementary Point”, in Studies of Chess, page 405:

     The Laws, or Interventive Regulations, obviate or decide disputes, between players, respecting punctilios in placing the board and pieces, and limit the penalties for irregularities.

   • 1997 June 20, Angela Bowman, “Labor Dispute”, in Chicago Reader‎:

     In a hospital setting, midwives are following protocols that are part of a more interventive model of care.

   • 2007 June 27, “Same-Sex Marriage: Parsing the Arguments (1 Letter)”, in New York Times‎:

     His opposition to same-sex marriage rests upon two familiar conservative notions: the view that interventive “protection” rather than encouragement is the best way to bolster the presumably threatened institution of marriage […] .

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interventive

1. inflection of interventiv:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular