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

It presents the peculiarities common to all Azurara's writings—the same fondness for quotations, and the same reliance on astrology as explicative of character.

From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. I by Azurara, Gomes Eannes de

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

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 Roget, Peter Mark