constitutive
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"We shall always support anything that all three constitutive peoples agree upon," Vucic said, referring to Bosnia's Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosniaks.
From Reuters • Apr. 15, 2023
But in Meacham’s treatment, such personal details function as supporting pieces in a story designed around high-stakes campaign speeches, the constitutive ritual of inaugurations and grave moments of statesmanship.
From Washington Post • Oct. 24, 2022
In their view, logic is a constitutive norm of reasoning—that is, logic constitutes what reasoning is.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
It is constitutive of being human, just as are creativity, courage, ambition, attachment and love.
From The Guardian • May 7, 2020
It carried out Kant’s doctrine of the categories as a priori synthetic principles, but removed the limitation by which Kant denied them any constitutive value except in alliance with experience.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.