significative

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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 Stevens, Thomas

Now it is the experience of all that dreams are significative of the future.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

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

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 Clarkson, Thomas

I perceived the essence of their delight and gratification, which arose chiefly from this, that all things and each thing they heard from the Word were representative and significative of heavenly and spiritual things.

From Heaven and its Wonders and Hell by Ager, John