significative

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Nor are the little curves, thus significative of trees, laid on at random.

From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by Ruskin, John

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

That the men sheltered behind the waggons have not “gone under” at the first onslaught is significative of their character.

From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne

The E is the prefix significative of a past time.

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

They have likewise a great many significative compositions in their verses.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch