elucidatory
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More often than not, Private Empire is a compelling and elucidatory work, though its disciplined, very ExxonMobil-esque adherence to rigor and propriety does make for some moments of reader fatigue.
From BusinessWeek ● May 18, 2012
My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them.
From Time Magazine Archive
I can't tell you how kindly he greeted me, and with what charming little elucidatory comments he presented me to his wife and the other guests.
From Christine by Alice Cholmondeley
She was greatly interested, and asked several elucidatory questions.
From Tono Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
For the modernisation of the spelling, which some readers may perhaps be inclined to regret, and for the punctuation, as well as for the elucidatory notes within brackets, Mr. Arber is solely responsible.
From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Professor Thomas Seccombe Arber
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