"combatative" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From combat + -ative. First attested in 1835.",
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          "ref": "1835, [Mary Shelley], “Ugo Foscolo”, in Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal, volume 2, page 374:",
          "text": "He frequented mostly the society of women; because he thought them more richly endowed by nature with pity and modesty, two pacific qualities which, he said, alone temper the combatative propensities of human beings.",
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          "ref": "1860, Solon Robinson, How to Live: Saving and Wasting, or, Domestic Economy Illustrated, page 215:",
          "text": "Some are loquacious; some are argumentative and religious; some are lascivious; some are excessively foolish; some are brutal, beastly, ugly, quarrelsome, wicked, combatative, murderous. Others are simply stupid.",
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          "ref": "1910, Edith M. Patch, O. A. Johannsen, Apple Tree Insects of Maine, page 25:",
          "text": "As this caterpillar is very readily dislodged, jarring the tree and killing the insect on the ground is a convenient combatative measure.",
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          "ref": "1926, John Mersereau, The Whispering Canyon, page 41:",
          "text": "Angus Cameron, he knew, was one of those unfortunates who are born with a sure knowledge of their constituted rights and the combatative zeal to defend them at any cost.",
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          "ref": "1997, Anders Andersson, Runes: The Secrets of the Stones, →ISBN, page 31:",
          "text": "When Tyr appears in a reading a competitive, not combatative character is suggested.",
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          "ref": "2010, James Chambers, Footballers’ Haircuts: A New History, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 55:",
          "text": "A combatative midfielder, his no-nonsense facial hair gives him the appearance of a gladiator looking for his next kill.",
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        "(proscribed) Uncommon form of combative."
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