neglective

adj

neglective

adj

/nɪˈɡlɛktɪv/

Etymology From neglect + -ive.

1

Archaic Neglectful.

  • [I]t is a wonder they ſhould be ſo neglective of their own children.1639, Thomas Fuller, “The Common-wealth of the Mammalukes Described, Presenting Us with Many Unexampled Remarkables”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book IV, page 202:
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neglectively

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