majoritive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more majoritive
form: most majoritive
Etymology: From majority + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Compare this majoritive state of the proud and conceited intellect of man, with the unproductive intellect of the technically-called insane, and say, if Shakspeare, in seeing through the mind; commonly called the ‘heart’ of man; was not right, when in meaning to remark, that the world, in its majoritive sense, is mad, applied it, as one of his passing satires, to the people of England alone: […] Enough has been said, to satisfy the independent inquirer, that the fanatical, and even the majoritive use of the mind, has to a greater or less extent the essential character of dreaming and of insanity; […] But all contentions about a spiritual and material mind are fictional and useless: yet certainly, from various causes, the sub-animal mind as far as the five perceptions are its instruments, is perfect in its kind, for all its purposes; and the human intellect in its general or majoritive use, is disastrously perverted.
ref: 1865 April 5, James Rush, “The Disorderly Perceptions of Insanity”, in Brief Outline of an Analysis of the Human Intellect; […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., pages 422, 428, and 432:
text: In his [Plato’s] attempt to demonstrate man as something other than instinctive and habitual in nature, he presented a theory of knowledge based on the simplicity of a divided line. This position was clear: man can function on one or more of four basic levels-⁠-imagination, belief, abstraction, and genuine knowledge through contemplation. At the levels of imagination and belief, man acts as a sensational being, appealing to basic instinctive stimuli. Plato's position was that of the majoritive portion of the populace function there.
ref: 1970 November 30, Pat Asher, “Case for Keeping an Open Mind”, in Subterranean Side Show, volume 2, number 8, Joliet, Ill.: Joliet Junior College, page 1, columns 1–3:
text: RABBI SIGAL WAS ON THE MAJORITIVE SIDE OF THE COMMITTEE’S DECISION TO ALLOW WOMEN TO BE COUNTED IN A MINYAN.
ref: 1974 November 20, “Hillel Presents Two Lectures”, in The Varsity, volume 95, number 30, Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto, page 10:
text: The rich young ruler discovered the “catch” in Christianity. The common denominator in all the historic movements mentioned and countless others is precisely their radicalism. They walked a path that led away from, and sharply criticized, the established order. In their devotion to Christ, they left the majoritive status quo wisdom, and sought alternatives.
ref: 1978 February 7, Daniel Smith, “Discipleship: A Way of Life”, in Robert D. Claiborne, editor, Crescent, volume 89, number 7, Newberg, Ore.: George Fox College, page 9, column 2:
text: While its purposes may vary widely, an institution must have a reach that touches the lives of populations of the world in a majoritive sense in order to be considered “global.”
ref: 1994, Edward Joseph Perkins, “Global Institutions: Action for the Future”, in Gerard F. Powers, Drew Christiansen, Robert T[homas] Hennemeyer, editors, Peacemaking: Moral and Policy Challenges for a New World, Washington, D.C.: United States Catholic Conference, Inc., →ISBN, section III (Global Institutions), page 166:
text: However, fear of crime and the fearful are still relegated near the bottom of a criminological hierarchy which perceives the offense, the offender and his place in the criminal justice system as being of most interest to academic researchers in the discipline. This stance fails to address the majoritive experience of crime, that of “fearful," and the process by which this position, quintessentially a gendered position cutting across race and class, is attained.
ref: 1996, Jo Goodey, “Adolescence and the Socialization of Gendered Fear”, in Martin D[avid] Schwartz, Dragan Milovanovic, editors, Race, Gender, and Class in Criminology: The Intersection (Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 19; Garland Reference Library of Social Science, 1072), New York, N.Y.; London: Garland Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, section II (Applications), page 267:
text: Illegal narcotics are just as available today in our society as alcohol was during the time of Prohibition, and a majoritive percentage of the illegal alcohol that was in the country then was not coming over our borders; it was distilled right here inside the country. […] Black on Black Crime, Black on Black animosity, gang banging, drug dealing, popping pistols on “niggas”, and the worship of material things for self-worth purposes all should be replaced with social consciousness, Black unity, Black love, and the promotion of positive and correct activity as the majoritive subjects of rap music.
ref: 2007, Demico Boothe, Why Are So Many Black Men in Prison? […], 2nd edition, Full Surface Publishing, →ISBN, pages 91 (The Incarceration and Disenfranchisement of African-American Men: […]) and 98–99 (The Affects that the Mass Incarceration of Black Men Is Having on the Black Community: […]):
glosses: Of or relating to a majority.
Derived terms: majoritively