significative

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None agree, however, as to the significative meaning of the name Asshur.

From Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa by Le Plongeon, Augustus

They could frequent the temple, keep their feasts, slay their sacrifices, and be mighty apt about all their significative things.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John

And without a word or look significative of his knowledge that Eugene was nigh, the duke placed Laura's other arm within his own, and stalked away.

From Prince Eugene and His Times by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

And the less musical but wonderfully significative fourth, stanza— Plagas sicut Thomas non intueor, Deum tamen meum te confiteor, Fac me tibi semper magis credere, In te spem habere, te diligere.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

Nor was it necessarily significative of friendliness; it could express hatred and the determination to see no more of another.

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)