significative

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The Smiths, Bakers, and Hunters of Occidental society are not a whit more significative than are many prominent names of the Orient.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Stevens, Thomas

And without a word or look significative of his knowledge that Eugene was nigh, the duke placed Laura's other arm within his own, and stalked away.

From Prince Eugene and His Times by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

Now it is the experience of all that dreams are significative of the future.

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

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 E is the prefix significative of a past time.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson