identificatory
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]identificatory (not comparable)
- Serving to identify something; identifying.
- 1996, Jan Joosten, The Syriac language of the Peshitta and old Syriac versions of Matthew, page 86:
- The important distinction between descriptive and identificatory nonverbal clauses […]
- 1989, Frank Kuppner, A Very Quiet Street, page 72:
- Are we to listen seriously to the identificatory evidence of people who do not notice the most strikingly obvious quality of the identifyee?
- Tending to identify oneself with someone or something; engendering association.
- 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
- Her attitude to L-DOPA became one of detached and humorous resignation, as did her attitude to her own symptoms and disabilities; she ceased to envy the patients who were flying aloft on L-DOPA, or to view with identificatory terror those patients who had done badly on the drug […]