Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
explicative .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Explicative.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Explanatory; serving to explain logically or in detail.
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Examples
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Detail serving no purpose other than the explicatory is window-dressing.
The Aesthetics of Fat Hal Duncan 2007
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Detail serving no purpose other than the explicatory is window-dressing.
Archive 2007-03-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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This explicatory approach to the strange continues with the revelation of why the robot is disembowelling its victims.
Strange Fiction in the Marketplace Hal Duncan 2008
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This explicatory approach to the strange continues with the revelation of why the robot is disembowelling its victims.
Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Vendler's sheer appetite for poetry and her explicatory power are phenomenal.
Helen Vendler's new commentary on Emily Dickinson, reviewed by Michael Dirda 2010
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Despite its endless procession of explicatory talking heads, it barely seems to scratch the surface of its fascinating subject.
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For these writers, authenticity may well be highly valued but it is not valued for an explicatory purpose; these writers have no interest in resolving the challenge to suspension of disbelief by flipping the subjunctivity back from "this could not be happening" to "this could be happening (elsewhen)".
The Aesthetics of Fat Hal Duncan 2007
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The categorisation and reference problems mentioned earlier as regards the term "fat fantasy" are highlighted here, in the risk of conflating the excusatory and the explicatory.
The Aesthetics of Fat Hal Duncan 2007
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If what we mean by worldbuilding is simply explication, if what we mean by "fat fantasy" is fiction bound to accessibility, immersion and conventionality but with that extra element of worldbuilding, well, adding explicatory authenticity to symbolic formulation does not make it "fantasy" to a writer or reader who wants their fiction truly strange; it simply adds more fat to the fat. posted by Hal Duncan | 3: 40 PM
The Aesthetics of Fat Hal Duncan 2007
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Unfortunately that conflation is common amongst those less versed in the relevant genres since the excusatory symbolic formulation, by nature, rips off the explicatory works, simulating authenticity by simply copying from the original.
The Aesthetics of Fat Hal Duncan 2007
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