Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being instructive; power of instructing.
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Examples
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I think it's important with Wayne because he's sort of an everyman and, you know, his music is down and dirty, but there's always been an element of instructiveness to it.
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I believe, moreover, that the boredom of such a book would match its instructiveness.
Paula Deitz: Alexis de Tocqueville: Letters From America 2009
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Back on deck I press the instructor about the instructiveness of all of this.
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That alone is a feat, that alone is a complete reversal of the deeply ingrained instructiveness of our culture, how we are supposed to ingest materials at particular speeds.
Archive 2006-10-01 Lemon Hound 2006
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That alone is a feat, that alone is a complete reversal of the deeply ingrained instructiveness of our culture, how we are supposed to ingest materials at particular speeds.
reading the newspaper: beaulieu Lemon Hound 2006
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"Decidedly entertaining, and, moreover, not without a certain measure of instructiveness."
In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory
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Acting thus, it is easy to see that I was mixed up in nothing, and what I shall have to relate now will have less of the singularity and instructiveness of good and faithful memoirs, than of the dryness and sterility of the gazettes.
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Among juvenile periodicals, we think GOLDEN DAYS likely to take high rank for variety, instructiveness, vivacity and freedom from objectionable characteristics.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 Various
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We have poetry too discursively brilliant for the trammels of verse, eloquence which has drawn its materials from the purest sources, and instructiveness running into sparkling effusions or soaring in aërial fancies.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various
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It would be wiser to say that it gains by anything that may add to its fruitfulness and instructiveness.
English literary criticism Various
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