explicative

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

A further consideration in favor of employing 'that' for explicative clauses is the unpleasant effect arising from the too frequent repetition of 'who' and 'which.'

From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Thomas Embly Osmun

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 Morris Jastrow

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 Alexandre Dumas père