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Abortiveness

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a·bor·tive  (-bôrtv)
adj.
1. Failing to accomplish an intended objective; fruitless: an abortive attempt to conclude the negotiations.
2. Biology Partially or imperfectly developed: an abortive organ.
3. Causing or meant to cause abortion; abortifacient.
a·bortive·ly adv.
a·bortive·ness n.
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Time and again, Mary Shelley saves her project from charges of abortiveness by reconstructing the now-vanished Percy Shelley into a monument of textual wholeness: I do not know whether the critics will reprehend the insertion of some of the most imperfect among [Shelley's works]; but I frankly own that I have been more actuated by the fear lest any monument of his genius should escape me than the wish of presenting nothing but what was complete to the fastidious reader.
Mary Shelley's editions of The Collected Poems of Percy Bysshe ... by Gladden, Samuel Lyndon / Studies in Romanticism
 
 
 
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