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View synonyms for explication

explication

[ ek-spli-key-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act of explicating.
  2. an explanation; interpretation:

    He gave a brilliant explication of James Joyce's book.



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Other Words From

  • reex·pli·cation noun
  • self-expli·cation noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of explication1

1520–30; < Middle French < Latin explicātiōn- (stem of explicātiō ). See explicate, -ion

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Example Sentences

The book influenced scientists with its challenges to Darwinian evolution and its compelling explication of the beauties of the natural world.

“It was basically an explication of how reality TV slants reality,” says Robert King.

Can something “clarion” really require explication, one wonders?

On his visit to England he was admitted fellow of the Royal society, and deserved it by his explication of Stonehenge.

Though names have no influence on Nature, yet an explication of them is doing service to those who study her productions.

Dr. Blacks discovery of latent heat, however, has afforded a very easy and natural explication of this phenomenon.

There is throughout a unity of purpose in the explication and embellishment of history which will be considered later.

We shall add, at the end, the appellative names contained in the laws, with their original and explication.

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