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Adjective edit

commentatory (comparative more commentatory, superlative most commentatory)

  1. of or relating to a commentary
    • 1921, Robert Lynd, The Art of Letters[1]:
      It is a thoughtless scattering of acceptable words and is as unlike the review conceived as a portrait as is the hostile kind of commentatory review which I have been discussing.
    • 1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers[2]:
      The latter has a commentatory letter to this end, from Gen. Jackson, dated the 19th of March, which denotes an interest on this topic that argues favorably of his views of moral things. "