significative
Example Sentences
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I perceived the essence of their delight and gratification, which arose chiefly from this, that all things and each thing they heard from the Word were representative and significative of heavenly and spiritual things.
From Heaven and its Wonders and Hell by John Ager
To which the Count replied, by the word Speranza, accompanied by a clasp of the hand and a significative glance.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
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 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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 Augustus Le Plongeon
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 Saint Thomas Aquinas
