Instructively

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Instructive \In*struct"ive\, a. [Cf. F. instructif.]
     Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as,
     experience furnishes very instructive lessons. --Addison.
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           In various talk the instructive hours they past.


                                                    --Pope.
     -- {In*struct"ive*ly}, adv. -- {In*struct"ive*ness}, n.
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           The pregnant instructiveness of the Scripture. --Boyle.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  instructively
       adv : in an informative manner [syn: {informatively}] [ant: {uninformatively},
              {uninformatively}]