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ter·mi·na·tive

(tûr′mə-nā′tĭv)

adj.

Serving, designed, or tending to terminate; conclusive.

ter′mi·na′tive·ly adv.

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terminatively

(ˈtɜːmɪnətɪvlɪ)

adv

in a finalizing manner

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"Oh--ay, as a lad I knowed your part o' the country very well," he said terminatively. "Though I've never been there since.

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This is to indicate a distinction from "nature" (Natur) which would designate the same person without the supernatural end but with a purely natural end, in other words, a concrete instance of "pure nature." The word terminative is Latin, an adverb meaning "terminatively." In other words, in Rahner's understanding the existential is a definitive determinant of a concrete human nature.

The whole Rahner on the supernatural existential

In my perspective, therefore, the three outcomes of the single action of the Father in the Holy Spirit are distinct from each other in the following way: the creation is really distinct from the sanctification, but the sanctification is only virtually distinct from the union understood terminatively, as the outcome of sanctification.