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illuminatory

illuminatory adjective: increasing informative qualities; explanatory.

Adjective

illuminatory (comparative more illuminatory, superlative most illuminatory)

  1. Increasing informative qualities; explanatory.
    • The problem of a non-learning authority remains apparently untouched by all the self-critical and self-analytical awareness which is evidenced. This, of course, does not deny the illuminatory potential of structuralist models of society in general, but this one does not work here.1991, Harry Smart, Criticism and Public Rationality: Professional Rigidity and the Search for Caring Government

Forms of illuminatory

comparativemore illuminatory
superlativemost illuminatory

Origin of illuminatory

From illuminate + -ory.

Questions about illuminatory

What does illuminatory mean?
Illuminatory means increasing informative qualities; explanatory.
What part of speech is illuminatory?
Illuminatory is an adjective.

Words near illuminatory in the dictionary

  1. illuminatists
  2. illuminative
  3. illuminatively
  4. illuminator
  5. illuminators
  6. illuminatory
  7. Illuminatus
  8. Illuminatuses
  9. illumine
  10. illumined
  11. illuminedst

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