significative
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"I have it from very good authority," replied Cloten, with a significative wink of the eye towards that part of the room where Emily was standing in conversation with Helen.
From Problematic Characters A Novel by Spielhagen, Friedrich
But in course of time these words have lost their force—their meaning has been forgotten—and they have come to be mere proper names, designative but not significative.
From History of Phoenicia by Rawlinson, George
Three of them could henceforth be considered only as significative of the forms in which all matter exists.
From Familiar Letters on Chemistry by Liebig, Justus, Freiherr von
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 Ager, John
Signif′icātively, in a significative manner: so as to betoken by an external sign.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
