instructiveness
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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At the time, he didn’t really understand the dynamic; he thought perhaps it came down to his penchant for instructiveness or people generally just enjoying his food.
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2019
He said it admiringly, with mock instructiveness but also with triumph, like a naturalist who has just sighted a rare specimen.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 3, 2014
Your report is full of instructiveness for doctors and attendants alike.
From A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography by Clifford Whittingham Beers
Among juvenile periodicals, we think Golden Days likely to take high rank for variety, instructiveness, vivacity and freedom from objectionable characteristics.
From Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 by James Elverson
There is one respect, not often thought of, in which the various ethnic pantheons, from those of the rawest barbarism to those of the most intellectual civilization, possess deep interest and instructiveness.
From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger
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