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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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51Թ 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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But when topics turn elsewhere — their biggest Hollywood regrets, for example, or expounding on who should join them on the Mt.

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Tanton kindles a small fire of twigs inside a metal pitcher, while expounding for the camera about ecology and overpopulation.

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I also have stuff that maybe was in the special that I have worked on, just expounding my feelings about it all.

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“No,” Servais said, trying to be stubborn before laughing and expounding.

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Rather than expounding a confident narrative, it shows its work with near-obsessive precision, packing paragraphs with data and statistical analysis, and then pausing every few pages to pull it all together into an eloquent chart.

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