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
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
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
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
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
