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All of Edwards's other writings may be arranged in relation to this principle,—as introductory, explicative, or defensive.
LIBRARY OF THE WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE, ANCIENT AND MODERN, VOL. 13VARIOUSThe first and second are informative, explicative, they take in and dothe other gives out.
SPARE HOURSJOHN BROWNThe explicative myths, arising from utility, from the necessity of knowing.
ESSAY ON THE CREATIVE IMAGINATIONTH. RIBOTWORDS RELATED TO EXPLICATIVE
- anecdotic
- characteristic
- characterizing
- circumstantial
- classificatory
- clear
- definitive
- delineative
- depictive
- describing
- designating
- detailed
- eloquent
- explicative
- expository
- expressive
- extended
- graphic
- identifying
- illuminating
- illuminative
- illustrative
- indicative
- interpretive
- lifelike
- narrative
- particularized
- pictorial
- picturesque
- revealing
- specific
- true to life
- vivid
- allegorical
- analytical
- annotative
- critical
- declarative
- demonstrative
- diagrammatic
- discursive
- elucidatory
- enlightening
- exegetic
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- explicative
- expositional
- expository
- graphic
- guiding
- hermeneutic
- illuminative
- illustrative
- informative
- informing
- instructive
- interpretive
- justifying
- summary
- supplementary
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.