explicative

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Wolfe’s writing can oscillate between graciously beautiful and being almost too explicative.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2017

The explicative myths, arising from utility, from the necessity of knowing.

From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen

The authors of the essay, though they deny the possibility of finding a single explicative principle chosen arbitrarily,504 themselves announce a principle, which, however, amounts simply to the statement that sacrifice is placatory.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris

He took his way toward the hotel of M. de Treville; his visit of the day before, it is to be remembered, had been very short and very little explicative.

From The Three Musketeers by Dumas père, Alexandre

Kühner thinks that they are genuine, and explicative of the more general term ἄρχοντες.

From The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis by Watson, John Selby