Definition of Explicatively

1. Adverb. In an explicative way. ¹

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Definition of Explicatively

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Explicatively

expletives
expletory
explicability
explicable
explicableness
explicably
explicandum
explicate
explicated
explicates
explicating
explication
explication de texte
explications
explicative
explicatively (current term)
explicator
explicators
explicatory
explicit
explicit definition
explicit function
explicit functions
explicitation
explicitly
explicitness
explicitnesses
explicits
explode
explode a bombshell

Literary usage of Explicatively

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to Child Psychology by Charles Wilkin Waddell (1918)
"14) has pointed out that the greater the number of words used explicatively, rather than merely indicatively, the higher the intelligence is likely to be. ..."

2. A Grammar of the Greek Language by William Edward Jelf (1866)
"... is also used explicatively to mark that the relative sentence expresses some (for the time) especial ..."

3. The Syntax and Synonyms of the Greek Testament by William Webster (1864)
"4 ; explicatively, E. 1. 23 ; G. 4. 26 ; differentially, where it denotes an attribute which essentially belongs to the nature of the antecedent, G. 4. ..."

4. Of the Church, Five Books by Richard Field (1852)
"... who shall suffer a temporal punishment in fire, as Master Higgons would have them, but explicatively, to signify the condition of all Christians. ..."

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