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explicative

[ek-spli-kay-tiv, ik-splik-uh-tiv] / ˈɛk splɪˌkeɪ tɪv, ɪkˈsplɪk ə tɪv /


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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 Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron

Hence such a proposition has also been called explicative.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

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

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

Adj. explanatory, expository; explicative, explicatory; exegetical†; construable. polyglot; literal; paraphrastic, metaphrastic†; consignificative†, synonymous; equivalent &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget


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