elucidate
verb (used with object)
elucidative
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a word derived from
elucidate.
Example Sentences
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The following letter from John Ross to Pike, which is number nine in the John Ross Papers in the Indian Office, is elucidative.
From The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Annie Heloise Abel
I now propose to bring together a series of facts specially elucidative of the harrowing theme.
From The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims Volume II (of II) by Andrew Steinmetz
At a very early stage of the Menzel Excerpts it became manifest that certain synchronous Austrian Ditto would prove highly elucidative; that, in fact, it would be indispensable to get hold of these as well.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17 by Thomas Carlyle
In looking at this wreck of Governments in all European countries, there is one consideration that suggests itself, sadly elucidative of our modern epoch.
From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
The latter is in so many ways elucidative and illuminative of the former, outwardly and inwardly, that I deem it well to give it first.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
