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/ɪkspˈaʊndɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Expound v. t. (past & past part. expounded; pres. part. expounding)

To lay open; to expose to view; to examine. (Obs.) "He expounded both his pockets."

To lay open the meaning of; to explain; to clear of obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a word, a meaning, or a riddle. "Expound this matter more fully to me."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Expounding" Quotes from Famous Books

... infinite and unconscious spirit, has an unsettling effect on their political beliefs." Lyall, therefore, rendered a very great political service to his countrymen when he took in hand the duty of expounding to them the true nature of Hindu religious belief. He did the work very thoroughly. Passing lightly by the "windy moralities" of Brahmo Somaj teachers of the type of Keshub Chunder Sen, whom he left to "drifting Deans such ...

— Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 • Evelyn Baring

... "Am I to be brought up at every second by a pert schoolgirl when I am expounding the mysteries of life? What have your twopenny-halfpenny science primers to do with the grand secret of toddy? I tell you we must catch it at the cooling point; and then, Violet—for you are a respectful and attentive student—if ...

— The Galaxy - Vol. 23, No. 1 • Various

... of our young friend," he said, "whose address, I am sure, would have been received with the approbation it deserves, I, myself, will occupy a portion of the time thus made vacant, in still further expounding to you—" ...

— The Flag • Homer Greene

... be simply personal and historical: I am not expounding Catholic doctrine, I am doing no more than explaining myself, and my opinions and actions. I wish, as far as I am able, simply to state facts, whether they are ultimately determined to be for me or against me. Of course there will ...

— Apologia pro Vita Sua • John Henry Newman

... sacrifice. The high priest and his attendant Levites proclaimed the unity and the omnipotence of the God of Israel, and the sympathetic responses of his conquering and chosen people reechoed over the plain. They retired again to their tents, to listen to the expounding of the law; even the distance of a Sabbath walk was not to exceed that space which lies between Jerusalem and the Mourft of Olives. This was the distance between the temple and the tabernacle; it had been nicely measured, and every Hebrew who ventured forth ...

— Alroy - The Prince Of The Captivity • Benjamin Disraeli

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