exhibitory
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of exhibitory
First recorded in 1600–10, exhibitory is from the Late Latin word exhibitōrius relating to showing, displaying. See exhibit, -tory 1
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Our contemporaries, so inconstant, so impatient, who wear out the attention of the public by the excessive multiplicity of their exhibitory manifestations, should occasionally think of the conditions under which their forerunners laboured.
From Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day by Walter Shaw Sparrow
This increases his attractiveness to youthful minds, but to a nature like Hawthorne's anything of an exhibitory character must always be unpleasant.
From The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns
Now, I must premise that I arrogate to myself no exhibitory rights in this lady.
From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes
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