significative

Example Sentences

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That the men sheltered behind the waggons have not “gone under” at the first onslaught is significative of their character.

From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne

The significative portion of it is the character for 'speech,' but the other half is merely phonetical, enabling us to approximate to its pronunciation or name.

From The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 by Legge, James

Beside the very significative absence of real violence, the persistent effort you made to hide facts accuses you.

From My Memoirs by Steinheil, Marguerite

As long as in these sesquipedalian compounds, the significative root remains distinct, they belong to the agglutinative stage; as soon as it is absorbed by the terminations, they belong to the inflectional stage.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

The Smiths, Bakers, and Hunters of Occidental society are not a whit more significative than are many prominent names of the Orient.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Stevens, Thomas