Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Exhibiting; showing; displaying.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Exhibiting; publicly showing.
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- adjective
exhibiting ;publicly showing
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is difficult to believe that any boy, however great his exhibitory passion, could permit, in the full possession of his sensibilities,
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This increases his attractiveness to youthful minds, but to a nature like Hawthorne's anything of an exhibitory character must always be unpleasant.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Stearns, Frank P 1906
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It is difficult to believe that any boy, however great his exhibitory passion, could permit, in the full possession of his sensibilities, a needle to be thrust deeply into his flesh without manifestations of a most unmesmeric sort.
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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It is difficult to believe that any boy, however great his exhibitory passion, could permit, in the full possession of his sensibilities, a needle to be thrust deeply into his flesh without manifestations of a most unmesmeric sort.
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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Having filled your souls with the streams of tears, ye have made them, O holy ones, fruitful, productive of every virtue and exhibitory of most glorious miracles.
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This increases his attractiveness to youthful minds, but to a nature like Hawthorne's anything of an exhibitory character must always be unpleasant.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Frank Preston Stearns 1881
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Maggie, one day, long before, and under her own attendance precisely, had, for the glory of the name she bore, paid a visit to one of the ampler shrines of the supreme exhibitory temple, an alcove of shelves charged with the gold-and-brown, gold-and - ivory, of old Italian bindings and consecrated to the records of the Prince's race.
The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879
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Maggie, one day, long before, and under her own attendance precisely, had, for the glory of the name she bore, paid a visit to one of the ampler shrines of the supreme exhibitory temple, an alcove of shelves charged with the gold-and-brown, gold-and - ivory, of old Italian bindings and consecrated to the records of the Prince's race.
The Golden Bowl — Volume 2 Henry James 1879
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Maggie, one day, long before, and under her own attendance precisely, had, for the glory of the name she bore, paid a visit to one of the ampler shrines of the supreme exhibitory temple, an alcove of shelves charged with the gold-and-brown, gold-and - ivory, of old Italian bindings and consecrated to the records of the Prince's race.
The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879
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Maggie, one day, long before, and under her own attendance precisely, had, for the glory of the name she bore, paid a visit to one of the ampler shrines of the supreme exhibitory temple, an alcove of shelves charged with the gold-and-brown, gold-and - ivory, of old Italian bindings and consecrated to the records of the Prince's race.
The Golden Bowl — Volume 2 Henry James 1879
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