Crossword-Solution: PRESERVATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Preservative | a. | Having the power or quality of preserving; tending to preserve, or to keep from injury, decay, etc. |
| Preservative | n. | That which preserves, or has the power of preserving; a presevative agent. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “PRESERVATIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CHEMICAL addition | 1 answer |
| FORMALIN | 1 answer |
| tending or having the power to preserve | 1 answer |
| bottler | 2 answers |
| MOTHBALL | 5 answers |
| stabiliser | 6 answers |
| chloroform | 6 answers |
| Additive | 44 answers |
| condiment | 48 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRESERVATIVE (5)
Setting aside all advantages of rank, this fair girl deemed herself conscious of a power—combined of beauty, high, unsullied purity, and the preservative force of womanhood—that could make her sphere impenetrable, unless betrayed by treachery within.
Because I think that this is the only virtue which remains in the State when the other virtues of temperance and courage and wisdom are abstracted; and, that this is the ultimate cause and condition of the existence of all of them, and while remaining in them is also their preservative; and we were saying that if the three were discovered by us, justice would be the fourth or remaining one.
They were very dark from the preservative in which they had been kept, and the skin had almost the look of leather.
One thing I could not help observing: what befell one of the quacks, who published that he had a most excellent preservative against the plague, which whoever kept about them should never be infected or liable to infection.
They have, however, this distinct advantage over the printers--they are not brought in contact with the manifold temptations to intemperance and profligacy which environ the votaries of the art preservative of arts.
Quotes with PRESERVATIVE (3)
Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life. Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot; it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance. Bestial thoughts crystallize into habits of drunkenness and sensuality, which solidify into circumstances of destitution and disease: impure thoughts of every kind crystallize into enervating and…
Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.
The enchantments of the past must always become the disenchantments of the future. But memory, a preservative, may intervene. The embalmer of original enchantments, it is the only human faculty that can outwit the advance of chronological time. Art, the embalmer of memory, is the only human vocation in which the time regained by memory can be permanently fixed.