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Demonstrative of

adjective

Serving to prove or demonstrate.

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"Demonstrative of" Quotes from Famous Books

... the dreary sala, with the gaudy painted ceiling, the bare dirty floor, the innumerable rattling doors and windows! Ellinor was submissive and patient in demeanour, because so sick and despairing at heart. Her maid was ten times as demonstrative of annoyance and disgust; she who had no particular reason for wanting to reach England, but who thought it became her dignity to make it seem as though ...

— A Dark Night's Work • Elizabeth Gaskell

... jaws by daylight), and the Little Wonder of Scholastic Equitation, and in a word, all the company. Amazing creatures they were in Louisa's eyes, so white and pink of complexion, so scant of dress, and so demonstrative of leg; but it was very agreeable to see them crowding about Sissy, and very natural in Sissy to be unable ...

— Hard Times • Charles Dickens*

Words linked to "Demonstrative of" : supportive