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

The first and second are informative, explicative, they “take in and do”—the other “gives out.”

From Spare Hours by Brown, John

The explicative myths, arising from utility, from the necessity of knowing.

From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen

The authors of the essay, though they deny the possibility of finding a single explicative principle chosen arbitrarily,504 themselves announce a principle, which, however, amounts simply to the statement that sacrifice is placatory.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris

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 Azurara, Gomes Eannes de