significative

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Hence the possible number of words is extremely small, and the number of significative sounds in the Chinese language is said to be no more than 450.

From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

He used the word which was significative beyond any thing that entered his imagination.

From The Allen House by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

The significative portion of it is the character for 'speech,' but the other half is merely phonetical, enabling us to approximate to its pronunciation or name.

From The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 by Legge, James

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)

Hence by its very name temperance is most significative of the good of reason to which it belongs to moderate and temper evil desires.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint