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Definition of Elucidation

1. Noun. An act of explaining that serves to clear up and cast light on.

2. Noun. An interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding. "The professor's clarification helped her to understand the textbook"

Definition of Elucidation

1. n. A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration; as, one example may serve for further elucidation of the subject.

Definition of Elucidation

1. Noun. A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration; as, one example may serve for further elucidation of the subject. ¹

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Definition of Elucidation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Elucidation

elsin elsins elt eltchi eltchis eltoprazine elts eluant eluants eluate

eluates elucidate elucidated elucidates elucidating elucidation (current term) elucidations elucidative elucidator elucidatorily

elucidators elucidatory eluctation elucubrate elucubrated elucubrates elucubrating elucubration elucubrations elude

Literary usage of Elucidation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1907)
"If it be met by belief in the mind of the hearer— belief already formed — it is to the hearer not proposal but elucidation ; and he in turn may proceed to ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1892)
"... Mr. J. HOPKINSON, and Mr. AW CLAYDEN (Secretary}, appointed to consider the application of Photography to the elucidation of Meteorological Phenomena. ..."

3. Papers Relating to the Treaty of Washington by United States Dept. of State, Geneva Arbitration Tribunal (1873)
"He claims,~how- ever, his right, under the Treaty, to reply to the new matter introduced under the call for elucidation made at the request of the Viscount ..."

4. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1899)
"elucidation Against this theory, which grants empirical reality to time, but denies to it absolute and transcendental reality, I have heard from intelligent ..."

5. Thought and Things: A Study of the Development and Meaning of Thought, Or by James Mark Baldwin (1908)
"If this is ^jri*1-" accompanied before the predication by belief in the mind of any actual hearer, the meaning to him is also one elucidation, for he might ..."

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