explicative

Wolfe’s writing can oscillate between graciously beautiful and being almost too explicative.

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2017

A further consideration in favor of employing 'that' for explicative clauses is the unpleasant effect arising from the too frequent repetition of 'who' and 'which.'

From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Thomas Embly Osmun

Thus, the explicative myths are as we see, an epitome of a practical philosophy, proportioned to the requirements of the man of the earliest, or slightly-cultured ages.

From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron

Kühner thinks that they are genuine, and explicative of the more general term ἄρχοντες.

From The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis by John Selby Watson

The authors of the essay, though they deny the possibility of finding a single explicative principle chosen arbitrarily,504 themselves announce a principle, which, however, amounts simply to the statement that sacrifice is placatory.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Morris Jastrow