significative

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But in course of time these words have lost their force—their meaning has been forgotten—and they have come to be mere proper names, designative but not significative.

From History of Phoenicia by Rawlinson, George

According to the Maya, their name is significative of these facts, since Kat or Katah is a verb that means to place impediments on the road, to come forth and obstruct the passage.

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

Beside the very significative absence of real violence, the persistent effort you made to hide facts accuses you.

From My Memoirs by Steinheil, Marguerite

The Quakers, in reply to this, would observe, that they use the word friend, as significative of their own union, and, when they speak to others, as significative of their Christian relation to one another.

From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 by Clarkson, Thomas

These sculptures of St. Zeno are, however, quite quiet and tame compared with those of St. Michele of Pavia, which are designed also in a somewhat gloomier mood; significative, as I think, of indigestion.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John