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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Latin exhibitorius relating to giving up: compare French exhibitoire exhibiting.

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Examples

  • It is difficult to believe that any boy, however great his exhibitory passion, could permit, in the full possession of his sensibilities,

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints Anonymous 1899

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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