expressive

• “Given that the state being articulated is not strictly necessarily emotional, other linguists prefer the term expressive, so that's what I'll run with.”

  Notes From The Geek Show

• “In this case our ordinary system of habits -- those which we call expressive of our "real selves" -- inhibit or quench (keep inactive or partially inactive) those habits and instinctive tendencies which belong largely in the past.”

  Introduction to the Science of Sociology

• “And that the literal signification has not altogether been lost in the spiritual and metaphorical use of it, as a term expressive of religious experience, is quite plain from many of the cases in which it occurs.”

  Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms

• “In its place in the brain it is like a book in a library; and as the book offers on its back a title expressive of its contents, so we label each convolution with its proper title.”

  Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5

• “Will any of your correspondents be good enough to explain the circumstances which gave rise to the adoption of "farina" as a term expressive of baseness and disparagement?”

  Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc

• “FOUTRE, _s. _ a term expressive of the greatest contempt.”

  Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV.

• “We are almost afraid to say what Mr. Waffles 'means were, but we really believe, at the time he came of age, that he had 100,000_l. _ in the funds, which were nearly at' par '-- a term expressive of each hundred being worth a hundred, and not eighty-nine or ninety pounds as is now the case, which makes a considerable difference in the melting.”

  Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour

• “On the other hand, if the husband would secure a cheerful obedience, and cherish, instead of spoil, an amiable temper, or regulate a peevish one, let his wishes be reasonable in themselves, and uttered without a look or a term expressive of an insolent consciousness of superiority.”

  Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I

• “Those learned and able divines began their labours by arranging, in the most systematic order, the various great and sacred truths which God has revealed to man; and then reduced these to thirty-two distinct heads or chapters, each having a title expressive of its subject.”

  The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)

• “` awful 'woman, _I_ should say; that's only a term expressive of a different kind of admiration.”

  True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best

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