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expounding

[ ik-spoun-ding ]

noun

  1. a detailed explanation, discursion, or interpretation:

    I have no natural taste for study, expounding, or poring over tomes.



adjective

  1. 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

First recorded in 1735–45; expound ( def ) + -ing 1( def ) for the noun; expound ( def ) + -ing 2( def ) for the adjective

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Example Sentences

I call it “locker-room gender essentialism” because it reminds me of the so-called facts about the sexes that middle-school boys expounded on when the girls weren’t around.

In addition to reflecting on what propelled her forward, she instructs readers on birthing a movement, and she expounds what it means to join one.

In your book, you expound on the economic inequalities that have become increasingly stark over the last 40 years.

From Fortune

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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