explanativelyadv.

1842 A. Flinders Confessions Apostate i. 16 ‘Why, d'ye see,’ said Jack, explanatively, ‘..what I means to say is this—that they ain't neither English nor yet French,—so, d'ye see, they're like the flying fishes, that ain't fish, nor fowl neither.’

1897 W. J. Locke Derelicts xii. 147 ‘We were going by Calais, as you know,’ said the Canon, explanatively to Mrs. Winstanley.

1914 B. Tarkington Penrod x. 81 ‘You see, he used to be upright as anybody,’ he went on explanatively. ‘It all begun—’ ‘Began, Penrod.’

1994 B. O. Solheim Nordic Nexus ii. 58 The ‘Nordic Balance’ is a term that can be used descriptively in that it can explain the reality of security in Norden in the 1950s. It can also be used explanatively for theoretical formulations.