"attritive" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "attrit + -ive. From attrition",
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          "text": "1858, Hugh Miller, Rambles of a Geologist, Chapter 5, in The Cruise of the Betsey; with Rambles of a Geologist, Edinburgh: Constable, p. 302,\n[…] the clay […] had gradually been moulded, under the attritive influences of the elements, into series of alternating ridges and furrows,"
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          "ref": "1936, William Faulkner, chapter 5, in Absalom, Absalom!, New York: Random House",
          "text": "Do you mark how the wistaria, sun-impacted on this wall here, distills and penetrates this room as though (light-unimpeded) by secret and attritive progress from mote to mote of obscurity’s myriad components?",
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          "ref": "1999, Christopher New, chapter 9, in Philosophy of Literature, London: Routledge, page 135",
          "text": "That certain works did thus survive time’s attritive passage, and that people did continue to agree in their estimation of them would by no means show […] that their judgments were both objective and correct.",
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          "ref": "2009 September 6, Tom Vanderbilt, “Up From Calamity”, in New York Times",
          "text": "From a nearby town came “crews of eager young men” who “pitched in” through the “attritive, swirling, arctic-like night.”",
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        "Causing attrition."
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          "text": "1858, Hugh Miller, Rambles of a Geologist, Chapter 5, in The Cruise of the Betsey; with Rambles of a Geologist, Edinburgh: Constable, p. 302,\n[…] the clay […] had gradually been moulded, under the attritive influences of the elements, into series of alternating ridges and furrows,"
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