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demonstratory

demonstratory adjective: serving to demonstrate something.

Adjective

demonstratory (comparative more demonstratory, superlative most demonstratory)

  1. Serving to demonstrate something.
    • But Lamartine also perceived clearly that this demonstratory review, exaggerated and altered by the clubs, and especially by the Blanqui club, overshot the mark which appeared to him to have been assigned by its organizers.1854, Alphonse de Lamartine, History of the French Revolution of 1848, volumes 1-2, page 118

Forms of demonstratory

comparativemore demonstratory
superlativemost demonstratory

Origin of demonstratory

From demonstrate + -ory.

Questions about demonstratory

What does demonstratory mean?
Demonstratory means serving to demonstrate something.
What part of speech is demonstratory?
Demonstratory is an adjective.

Words near demonstratory in the dictionary

  1. demonstrativity
  2. demonstrator
  3. demonstrators
  4. demonstratorship
  5. demonstratorships
  6. demonstratory
  7. demonstre
  8. demonstred
  9. Demont
  10. Demonte
  11. Demontes

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