expatiation

• Berry's expatiation on art is parallel to defining craft, through which engaged, craft respects its natural limits in order to "enrich" not —  Countercurrents.org
• There's a good deal of deception and bitchery, and oodles of explanation, expiation, and expatiation, none of which clears the playing field satisfactorily but turns the play into a two-hours-plus wordfest, with only a smidgen of action.
• The little picture had helped and comforted Lois amazingly, and she went to bed with a heart humbled and almost contented She went, however, in good time, before Madge could return home; she did not want to hear the outflow of description and expatiation which might be expected. —  Nobody
• The expatiation was long and the movement slow, because Rousseau was full of his thoughts; they were a deep and glowing part of himself, and did not merely skim swiftly and lightly through his mind. —  Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
• In these--even more perhaps than in Havelok's more masculine and less sentimental fortunes--there are openings not entirely neglected by the romancer (though, as has been said, he does not seem to have been one of the strongest of his kind) for digression, expatiation, embroidery. —  The English Novel

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