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What does appropriative mean?

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Adjective
  1. Taking or setting apart for oneself.
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It is the appropriative words, thine and mine, which make this history different from any other history.
It is Fevvers' ambiguity which allows her to elude the appropriative gestures of spectators and would be captors.
Generally, western-dominated research has been seen as appropriative and inconsistent with Maori world views and understandings.
Because appropriative rights can be separated from the land and sold or leased, they can form the basis for private water trades.
Ergo, the terrestrial or the Life of Nature ever the shadow and opposite of the Divine is appropriative, absorbing appetence.
All was inspired not by Santa Cruz, but by Kate and Laura's childhood memories, or confabulations, thereof — a meaningful step away from the culture's appropriative mood.

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