enumerative
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a word derived from
enumerate.
enumerateverb (used with object)to mention separately as if in counting; name one by one; specify, as in a list.
Example Sentences
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He took the linear, enumerative style of early American effigy painting and made it peculiarly grand--not through rhetoric, as in the "grand manner," but through the candor of its curiosity.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The copulative or enumerative conjunctions, have only two degrees.
From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various
So again his description is sufficient: and the enumerative particularity of it is even great part of the secret de Polichinelle to which we are coming.
From The English Novel by George Saintsbury
One is representative or enumerative; the other, suggestive.
From English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
Now the prospect from the hill at Hagley furnished me with the true explanation of this enumerative style.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers