elucidative
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There is incidentally a quantity of autobiographic record in my notes to this manuscript; but except as subsidiary and elucidative of the text I put no value on such.
From The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul
The latter is in so many ways elucidative and illuminative of the former, outwardly and inwardly, that I deem it well to give it first.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
In looking at this wreck of Governments in all European countries, there is one consideration that suggests itself, sadly elucidative of our modern epoch.
From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
The following letter from John Ross to Pike, which is number nine in the John Ross Papers in the Indian Office, is elucidative.
From The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Annie Heloise Abel
I have thus, I believe, stated all the material facts that have any elucidative bearing upon this mysterious occurrence.'
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
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