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Expounding   /ɪkspˈaʊndɪŋ/   Listen
Expounding

noun
1.
A systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic.  Synonym: exposition.



Expound

verb
(past & past part. expounded; pres. part. expounding)
1.
Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing.  Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, flesh out, lucubrate.  Antonym: contract.
2.
State.  Synonyms: exposit, set forth.






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"Expounding" Quotes from Famous Books



... some of them were turning back toward the inviting door in which the bartender stood with his dirty apron knotted into a string before him. Some of the more voluble were accusing the others of not having supported them, and loudly expounding the method of attack that would have been successful. The man with red welts across his face was swearing that if he ever got a chance he would "put a rifle ball through Bully." The young man by the rock grinned and said: "That's just about as close as he would ever dare come to ...
— The Plunderer • Roy Norton

... of the cadets and their instruction in the theory of gunnery. The tactics of artillery, as the word is understood in Europe, he was not called upon to impart. Optics, mechanics, and astronomy were his special subjects, and he seems strangely out of place in expounding ...
— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson

... Augustine is speaking there of knowledge, while expounding the passage of the Apostle quoted above (Obj. 1): hence he is referring to knowledge, in the sense already explained, as a gratuitous grace. This is clear from the context which follows: "For it is one thing to know only what a man must believe in order to gain ...
— Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) - From the Complete American Edition • Saint Thomas Aquinas

... and expounding Brunetiere's theory, Brander Matthews in his "A Study of the Drama" condenses the French critic's reasoning into these ...
— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page

... bread and then, As after thought could say, Did not our heart Within us burn while he talked. O, Jacob Groesbell, Thou carpenter, as I was, greatly blessed With visions and my Father's love, this walk Is your walk toward Emmaus.' So he talked, Expounding all the scriptures, telling me About the race of men who live and move Along a life of meat and drink and sleep And comforts of the flesh, while here and there A hungering soul is chosen to lift up And re-create ...
— Toward the Gulf • Edgar Lee Masters


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