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
He took his way toward the hotel of M. de Treville; his visit of the day before, it is to be remembered, had been very short and very little explicative.
From The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père
Hence such a proposition has also been called explicative.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read
Adj. explanatory, expository; explicative, explicatory; exegetical†; construable. polyglot; literal; paraphrastic, metaphrastic†; consignificative†, synonymous; equivalent &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
The first and second are informative, explicative, they “take in and do”—the other “gives out.”
From Spare Hours by John Brown
