"claritive" meaning in English

See claritive in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more claritive [comparative], most claritive [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} claritive (comparative more claritive, superlative most claritive)
  1. Serving to make things clearer; explanatory.
    Sense id: en-claritive-en-adj-vY5e4UDq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "The teacher's supportive role in saying \"We have some pretty nice boys and girls here\", and her claritive role in saying \"Ann's situation with her baby brother is different from yours, Betty. Isn't your brother older than you are?\" were most helpful to the director, working with these youngsters for the first time.",
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          "ref": "1966, Lahey Clinic Foundation - Volume 15, page 146:",
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          "ref": "2012, Jon Mills, Conundrums: A Critique of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The proposition that \"there are only interpretations of interpretations\" leads to an inescapable circularity whereby each interpretation could be perennially begging its own question of what interpretation is really about, not to mention what interpretation is superior to others, contains more value, is more precise, definitive, or claritive, and so on because it lacks a referent or criterion to which to anchor meaning.",
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