significative
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Hence by its very name temperance is most significative of the good of reason to which it belongs to moderate and temper evil desires.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
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
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
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 Max Müller
Three of them could henceforth be considered only as significative of the forms in which all matter exists.
From Familiar Letters on Chemistry by Justus, Freiherr von Liebig
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