illuminatory

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adjective

Increasing informative qualities; explanatory.

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Meanings

adjectiveilluminatory (comparative more illuminatory, superlative most illuminatory)

comparative more illuminatory · superlative most illuminatory

  1. Increasing informative qualities; explanatory.

    The problem of a non-learning authority remains apparently untouched by all the self-critical and self-analytical awareness which is evidenced. This, of course, does not deny the illuminatory potential of structuralist models of society in general, but this one does not work here.

    1991, Harry Smart, Criticism and Public Rationality: Professional Rigidity and the Search for Caring Government

Origin

From illuminate + -ory.

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APA

illuminatory. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/illuminatory

MLA

“illuminatory.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/illuminatory. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “illuminatory,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/illuminatory.

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