demonstrative
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Demonstrative, loud, trash-talking, he pushed opponents’ buttons with ease.
From Fox News • May 13, 2021
Demonstrative grieving is not unique to North Korea.
From Chicago Tribune • Dec. 22, 2011
For Locke there are ‘three degrees of Knowledge, viz. Intuitive, Demonstrative, and Sensitive: in each of which, there are different degrees and ways of Evidence and Certainty’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Demonstrative Pronouns.+—This and that, with their plurals these and those, are called demonstrative pronouns, because they point out individual persons or things.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
The Discoveries made by these Glasses, as to the Soul, are of a very diverting Variety; some Hieroglyphical, and Emblematical, and some Demonstrative.
From The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon by Defoe, Daniel
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