Epexegesis

Word EPEXEGESIS
Character 10
Hyphenation ep ex e ge sis
Pronunciations /ɛpˌɛksɪˈdʒisɪs/

Definitions and meanings of "Epexegesis"

What do we mean by epexegesis?

Additional explanation or explanatory material. noun

Subjoined explanation or elucidation; specifically, in rhetoric, the act of subjoining a word, phrase, clause, or passage in order to explain more fully the meaning of an indefinite or obscure expression; the immediate restatement of an idea in a clearer or fuller form. noun

A full or additional explanation; exegesis. noun

An additional explanation or explanatory material. noun

An additional explanation or explanatory material.

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The word "epexegesis" in example sentences

Here is an instance where the waw with a perfect merely expresses "a digression or an epexegesis," as ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)

No one has put together, or, to adopt a more expressive phrase, heaped together such enormous paragraphs; no one has linked clause on clause, parenthesis on parenthesis, epexegesis on exegesis, in such a bewildering concatenation of inextricable entanglement. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

This conclusion is very much strengthened by the epexegesis, "as if they burned in a furnace;" words of explanation immediately added by St. John, as probably knowing the difficulty which his readers would find in this unusual term. ❋ 1807-1886 (1863)

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