See extinctual in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1968, Free Lance Press, The Free Lance, Volume 4",
"text": "I mourn because I would not kill, knowing killing is suffering a snarling, extinctual end; and I mourn that something weak, nameless — inside me — allows this lie of color life in my blood and bone."
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