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[syn: informatively, instructively]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Instructive \In*struct"ive\, a. [Cf. F. instructif.]
Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as,
experience furnishes very instructive lessons. --Addison.
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In various talk the instructive hours they past.
--Pope.
-- In*struct"ive*ly, adv. -- In*struct"ive*ness, n.
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The pregnant instructiveness of the Scripture. --Boyle.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
instructively
adv 1: in an informative manner [syn: informatively,
instructively] [ant: uninformatively,
uninstructively]