The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.
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Expounding
Synonyms for "expounding" (40 found)
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Noun(13 words)
explanatoryexplanatory mannerexplicateexplicationexpositexpositoryexpository styleinterpretinterpretationpedagogicalpresentsystematictreatise
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13 entriesadjectivecommunicationdescriptive termdiscoursedoctrinal expositionexegesisexplanationexpositionexpository activityexpository writinginterpretationpresentationtreatise
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17 entriesanalyticdialectical expositiondidacticdidacticismelaborativeexegesisexplicationexpositoryexpository elaborationpedagogicalphilological interpretationrabbinic exegesisscriptural exegesissystematicsystematic expositiontextual interpretation
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Collocations
17 entriescareful expoundingclear expositiondetailed expositiondoctrinal expositionexpounding argumentexpounding chapterexpounding discourseexpounding lectureexpounding of theoryexpounding proselengthy expoundingprecise expoundingrigorous expoundingscholarly expositionscholarly expoundingsystematic exposition
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Professor Simon Newcomb was expounding this to the New York Mathematical Society only a month or so ago.
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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.
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