The phrase 'explanatory of' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used when providing a description or explanation of something, as in the following example: The report provides a detailed graphical analysis explanatory of the cause of the decline in sales.
"Change in print ads is still significantly explanatory of the change in employment," said Kenneth Goldstein, the Conference Board's labor market analyst.
(And, if those neurons are standard issue, then they can't be very explanatory of what we mean by empathy: Bernie Madoff would have as many as Nelson Mandela).
"He's so beautifully explanatory of things I don't know if other people think about, but I think about, but just can't quite put into words.
"Reyes's account of the attack and rape," the report concluded, "is corroborated by, consistent with or explanatory of objective, independent evidence in a number of important respects".
Parents were advised to play with their children and "request their attention to a few moral and judicious observations explanatory of each Character as they proceed & contrast the happiness of a Virtuous & well spent life with the fatal consequences arriving from Vicious & Immoral pursuits".
This may be both informative and explanatory of the aggregate result.
The lack of explanatory power of the models tested here can also indicate the importance of stochastic processes for recruitment.
These arguments, however, display aspects of the explanatory power of the idea of God.
The speech appears to be something of explanatory manifesto of the Chairman's thinking.
Fig. 9 Instructors views of explanatory power of evolution.
(underset{raise0.3emhbox{$smash{scriptscriptstyle-}$}}{text{X}}_{text{i}})—vector of explanatory variables of individual i.
