a. nonce-wd. [f. CLAIM v. + -ATIVE.] Disposed to make claims, exacting. Hence Claimativeness.
1868. Helps, Realmah, xiv. (1876), 377. E. I am discontented with that word jealousy. Give me another word. M. Claimfulness? E. An ugly word. M. Claimativeness, then? E. That is better. Ibid. I might have been jealous or claimative. Ibid. Free from jealousy, or, to use his own word, claimativeness.
