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didactic
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synonyms: edifying ???
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Definition:Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson;Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction, and, despite John Ray’s assertion, Lolita has no moral in tow.
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita (note from author)
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In turning to the teaching of Jesus (I still confine myself to the three gospels), we find no support of the Christian theory. If we take his didactic teaching, we can discover no trace of his offering himself as an object of either faith or worship.
Annie Besant. My Path to Atheism (1885)
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After reading several books on anthropology, education, and didactics, Alexey Alexandrovitch drew up a plan of education,
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Always didactic, he went into learned exposition of the diabolical properties of cinnabar,
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.7 (1970)
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Winston could see the whiskers and the yellow teeth. Again the black panic took hold of him. He was blind, helpless, mindless.
‘It was a common punishment in Imperial China;’ said O’Brien as didactically as ever.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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“You are distributing your weight incorrectly,” he told them didactically.
John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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you must next consider the tone, or manner, of your narration. There is the tone didactic, the tone enthusiastic, the tone natural—all common—place enough. But then there is the tone laconic, or curt, which has lately come much into use. It consists in short sentences. Somehow thus: Can't be too brief. Can't be too snappish. Always a full stop. And never a paragraph.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: How to Write a Blackwood Article (1838)
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