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demonstrative

[duh-mon-struh-tiv] / dəˈmɒn strə tɪv /




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Demonstrative, loud, trash-talking, he pushed opponents’ buttons with ease.

From Fox News • May 13, 2021

Demonstrative grieving is not unique to North Korea.

From Chicago Tribune • Dec. 22, 2011

For Locke there are ‘three degrees of Knowledge, viz. Intuitive, Demonstrative, and Sensitive: in each of which, there are different degrees and ways of Evidence and Certainty’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The Discoveries made by these Glasses, as to the Soul, are of a very diverting Variety; some Hieroglyphical, and Emblematical, and some Demonstrative.

From The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon by Defoe, Daniel

And by this truly Demonstrative Science, namely Chymistry, I found that they were compos’d of much Salt, little Sulphur, and less Mercury.

From The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. by Boyle, Robert




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