epexegesis

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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.

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  1. noun Additional explanation or explanatory material.

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  • 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. —  A History of Elizabethan Literature
 

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  1. Greek epexēgēsis, from epexēgeisthai, to explain in detail : ep-, epi-, epi- + exēgeisthai, to explain; see exegesis.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἐπεξήγησις, a detailed account, explanation, from ἐπεξηγεῖσθαι, recount in detail, from ἐπί, upon, + ἐξηγεῖσθαι, recount, explain: see exegesis.
 

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/ɛpɛksəˈdʒisɪs/
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