explicative
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Wolfe’s writing can oscillate between graciously beautiful and being almost too explicative.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2017
Kühner thinks that they are genuine, and explicative of the more general term ἄρχοντες.
From The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis by John Selby Watson
A further consideration in favor of employing 'that' for explicative clauses is the unpleasant effect arising from the too frequent repetition of 'who' and 'which.'
From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Thomas Embly Osmun
It presents the peculiarities common to all Azurara's writings—the same fondness for quotations, and the same reliance on astrology as explicative of character.
From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. I by Gomes Eannes de Azurara
Thus, the explicative myths are as we see, an epitome of a practical philosophy, proportioned to the requirements of the man of the earliest, or slightly-cultured ages.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron
