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demonstrative

In grammar, of a pronoun, adjective, or determiner, pointing out or distinguishing (‘I like this book; you can keep that’).



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The women simply frightened them, as being, even more than the men, demonstrative and excessive in their fine looks, their fine dresses, their extravagant demand for excitement.
Aunt Jane, never demonstrative, cried with Rebecca as she attempted to soothe her.
A moment after I heard the click of the gate-latch and then in an ecstasy of barking from his demonstrative dog his serious head went past my window on the other side of the hedge, its troubled gaze fixed forward, and the mind inside obviously employed in earnest speculation of an intricate nature.
 
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