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instructiveness |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Instructive \In*struct"ive\, a. [Cf. F. instructif.] Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as experience furnishes very instructive lessons. --Addison. In various talk the instructive hours they past. --Pope. -- {In*struct"ive*ly}, adv -- {In*struct"ive*ness}, n. The pregnant instructiveness of the Scripture. --Boyle.
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