Expatiating

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    expatiation

    "[…] we can scarcely open, a book in which the habits and manners of animals are treated of, without meeting with numerous, fervent, and eloquent expatiatings on their sagacity […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of expatiate form-of, gerund, participle, present

    "Surely the time passed in expatiating on the reverend Doctor's faults was rather profitably passed than otherwise."

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