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  • adjective Of or pertaining to clarification
  • adjective That serves to clarify

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Examples

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

    Editorial Principles and Conventions 2009

  • 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 James F. McGrath 2009

  • 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.

    enowning enowning 2008

  • 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 Wallace, R. Jay 2008

  • 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.

    Archive 2008-03-01 enowning 2008

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

    Epistemic Contextualism Rysiew, Patrick 2007

  • Ampliative and clarificatory inference in theology

    Archive 2006-11-01 Mike L 2006

  • 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.

    Ampliative and clarificatory inference in theology Mike L 2006

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

    Archive 2006-11-01 Mike L 2006

  • 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 Mike L 2006

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