pressive
adjEtymology From press + -ive.
1
Obsolete pressing; urgent
- pressive need
- pressive pain
2
Obsolete oppressive
- pressive taxation
- The more unwillingness they saw in Christ to give his answer, the more pressive and importunate they were to draw it from him1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC: