informing

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors)
noun a speech act that conveys information
verb impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to

I don't call that informing. — When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Which when he discovered, he dwelt the more upon that subject, informing and wondering at our ignorance of one so eminent. — The Confessions of St. Augustine, of Hippo, Saint Augustine
Flaubert[140] and sundry of his school, above all, the Italian D’Annunzio, annex poetry to the prose romance, and not poetry as an informing spirit simply, but the cadences, the colour, the very refrain. — The Beginnings of Poetry, Francis Barton Gummere

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