Definition of "instructive" []

• Conveying knowledge or information; enlightening. (adjective)

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• "Randall, is very anxious that the services should be what he calls instructive; that courses, for instance, of sermons should be preached on certain books of the Old Testament, on the Pauline"
• ""It Stinks!" is a way of encouraging readers to pay less attention, since even bad books can be bad in instructive ways."
• "What I find most instructive is how New Media folks are critical of his new media stance but pro to his anti-government stance."