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A Writer's Dictionary:

ostensive Definition


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ostensive
adj
    1. logic.
      Directly or manifestly demonstrative.
    2. Said of a definition: giving examples of things to which the defined word properly applies.
    3. ostensible.
Derivative: ostensively
adverb
    Derivative: ostensiveness
    noun
      Etymology: 16c: from Latin ostentivus provable, from Latin ostendere, ostensum to show.



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