ostensive
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Such has been the trope of the rom-com since Carole Lombard crumpled in the arms of John Barrymore, but today’s ostensive “trainwrecks” transcend the genre and the Hollywood arena.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2015
No proof, in a question of that nature, can be so showy and ostensive to a stranger, as that which is supplied by this vindictive pamphlet.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various
It serves mainly to provide the regime with ostensive evidence of its power and technological progress.
From Area Handbook for Albania by Elpern, Sarah Jane
The mnemonic lines, 'Barbara, Celarent, etc., provide complete directions for the ostensive reduction of all the moods of the second, third, and fourth figures to the first, with the exception of Baroko and Bokardo.
From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph
The third rule for the guidance of pure reason in the conduct of a proof is that all transcendental proofs must never be apagogic or indirect, but always ostensive or direct.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
