descriptive bibliography

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noun Library Science.

the aspect of bibliography concerned with the close physical study and description of books and other works.

a record of such description of a given number of related works.

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QUIZ YOURSELF ON "WAS" VS. "WERE"!

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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.

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She avoids an exhaustively descriptive definition because she opposes condemning all novels based on the flaws of some novels.
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When you mail it in or bring it back, you include descriptive words that would lead a consumer to your work.
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And so we are all supposed to denote something from “working mother” as a descriptive adjective.
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The name is descriptive: they are extremely intense bursts of gamma rays, the highest energy form of light.
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It was descriptive, prescriptive, and exemplary in its clarity.
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His Characters, in imitation of Theophrastus, is a work of established excellence, and descriptive of the manners of that age.
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As Mrs. Armine looked at him she remembered the descriptive phrase that set him apart from all the people of Luxor.
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In one of them, descriptive of antediluvial history, is a painting of Lamech shooting Cain with a bow and arrow.
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These things are beyond my knowledge, which it would perhaps be more descriptive to call ignorance.
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