explicative

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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 Osmun, Thomas Embly

The first and second are informative, explicative, they “take in and do”—the other “gives out.”

From Spare Hours by Brown, John

The explicative myths, arising from utility, from the necessity of knowing.

From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen

Il est donc contradictoire d'attribuer au hasard la raison explicative de l'ordre.”—Mercier, op. cit., § 260.523.Cf.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter