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Significative   Listen
adjective
Significative  adj.  
1.
Betokening or representing by an external sign. "The holy symbols or signs are not barely significative."
2.
Having signification or meaning; expressive of a meaning or purpose; significant. "Neither in the degrees of kindred they were destitute of significative words."





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"Significative" Quotes from Famous Books



... 22. In like manner the festival of St. John the Evangelist occurs at midsummer day, when the sun reaches its highest northern declination. All those church periods are purely astronomical or astrological in character. The "Alpha" and "Omega" of Revelation contain profound evolutionary truths, significative of spirit and of matter, or God ...
— The Woman's Bible. • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
... study of family names we come across very much the same phenomena as in dealing with other words. They are subject to the same phonetic accidents and to the distortions of folk-etymology, being "altered strangely to significative words by the common sort, who desire to make all to be significative" (Camden, Remains concerning Britain). Doublets and homonyms are of frequent occurrence, and the origin of some names is obscured by the well-meaning efforts of early ...
— The Romance of Words (4th ed.) • Ernest Weekley


Words linked to "Significative" :   indicatory, suggestive, revelatory, indicative


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