demotive

[Jonathan Lighter]

A pedagogical site instructing young Australians in literary nuance explains
that just as "emotive" language is "coloured, biased," so "demotive"
language is "technical, dispassionate":
http://neboliterature.mrkdevelopment.com.au/poetry/Wilfred%20Owen/The-Parable-of-Old-Man-and-the-Young.html


Get it? E-motive? DE-motive?  It's obvious. And I could have been using this
word for years!  D'oh!

Not in OED. D'oh!!

JL


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