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comparative more retentive, superlative most retentive
Having power to retain quotations examples
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit.
1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene iii]
(slang, apocope) anal-retentive
plural retentives
(obsolete) That which retains or confines; a restraint.