Expounding

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which something is expounded.

    "May 7, 1814, William Cobbett, "The Pope", in Political Register […] all the elaborate expoundings of these impudent empirics, who are a million times worse than the worst of Catholic Priests."

  2. 2
    a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of expound form-of, gerund, participle, present

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clarificationdecodingdemonstrationelucidationenlightenmentexegesis

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"The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us."

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