significative

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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)

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

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

As long as in these sesquipedalian compounds, the significative root remains distinct, they belong to the agglutinative stage; as soon as it is absorbed by the terminations, they belong to the inflectional stage.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

The "Alpha" and "Omega" of Revelation contain profound evolutionary truths, significative of spirit and of matter, or God unmanifested and manifested.

From The Woman's Bible by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady