significative
Example Sentences
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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 Thomas Stevens
These sculptures of St. Zeno are, however, quite quiet and tame compared with those of St. Michele of Pavia, which are designed also in a somewhat gloomier mood; significative, as I think, of indigestion.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by John Ruskin
To which the Count replied, by the word Speranza, accompanied by a clasp of the hand and a significative glance.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
The Quakers, in reply to this, would observe, that they use the word friend, as significative of their own union, and, when they speak to others, as significative of their Christian relation to one another.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 by Thomas Clarkson
They used the words simply as proper names, without regarding them as significative.
