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expounding
[ ik-spoun-ding ]
noun
- a detailed explanation, discursion, or interpretation:
I have no natural taste for study, expounding, or poring over tomes.
adjective
- being someone or something that explains or interprets:
The book is an expounding collection of tales, brimming with translated historical and cultural anecdotes.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of expounding1
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Example Sentences
When a point needed expounding, a horseback ride into Rosewater was not an unwelcome diversion.
In this essay find examples of the five methods of expounding a proposition.
Again, we find nowhere any orders to the priests or Levites to go about the country expounding or teaching the law.
For nine months the mission from Windesheim sat in Paris, expounding, demonstrating, hoping to persuade.
For to-day the Minister was expounding a very serious question; both Ministerialists and Opposition must listen.
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