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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. Alexander of Tunis, First Earl. Title of Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander. 1891-1969. British field marshal who during World War II led maneuvers at Dunkirk and in Burma, North Africa, and Italy.

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  1. adj. Of or pertaining to clarification
  2. adj. That serves to clarify

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  • “Where this is likely to cause the present-day reader confusion, the editors have provided a clarificatory note.”

    Editorial Principles and Conventions

  • “But would Luke have eliminated other apparent clarificatory comments such as the additional lines in the Lord's Prayer?”

    Did Matthew Know Luke? A Neglected Angle on the Synoptic Problem

  • “It is in the most intimate part of clinical practice - that which deals with psychoses - that the clarificatory power of Heraclitus' aphorisms, supported by Heidegger, now reappears.”

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  • “Rather than exclude such reflection because it does not conform to a narrowly scientific paradigm of reason, perhaps we should expand our conception of practical reason to make room for clarificatory reflection about the ends of action.”

    Practical Reason

  • “Ludlow disagrees with Hawthorne about the prevalence of clarificatory devices for”

    Epistemic Contextualism

  • “Thus, developments that can readily be formulated as merely clarificatory can readily be accepted as legitimate; whereas ampliative developments, which by definition are not merely clarificatory, often are not readily accepted.”

    Archive 2006-11-01

  • “Ampliative and clarificatory inference in theology”

    Archive 2006-11-01

  • “If so, the development of doctrine has room for ampliative as well as clarificatory inference.”

    Archive 2006-11-01

  • “It hinges on the distinction, oft employed under various names by Newman, between ampliative and clarificatory inference.”

    Ampliative and clarificatory inference in theology

  • “Sacramentum Vitae: Ampliative and clarificatory inference in theology skip to main”

    Ampliative and clarificatory inference in theology

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