elucidatory
Example Sentences
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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
She was greatly interested, and asked several elucidatory questions.
From Tono Bungay by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
She was also to find a means of preventing the French translatress of Moore’s Life of Byron from introducing Clare’s name into her elucidatory footnotes.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas
That gentleman's dovetailed observations were by no means elucidatory on the point I came to clear up.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 by Various
