Definition of Epexegesis

1. n. A full or additional explanation; exegesis.

Definition of Epexegesis

1. Noun. (rhetoric) An additional explanation or explanatory material. ¹

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Definition of Epexegesis

1. [n -GESES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epexegesis

epenthetically
epeolatries
epeolatry
eperdu
eperdue
epergne
epergnes
eperisone
eperlan
epersalgia
epershand
epershands
eperythrozoon
eperythrozoonosis
epexegeses
epexegesis (current term)
epexegetic
epexegetical
epexegetically
epha
ephah
ephahs
ephapse
ephaptic
ephas
ephebe
ephebes
ephebi
ephebic
ephebiphobia

Literary usage of Epexegesis

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

1. Recensio synoptica annotationis sacrae, being a critical digest and by Samuel Thomas Bloomfield (1826)
"This verse contains an epexegesis, or further illustration, of what preceded : qd " He hath the hope ..."

2. The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology: As Represented in the by Charles Porterfield Krauth (1875)
"In the epexegesis, one thing is spoken of in more than one aspect, and, hence, under more than ... If an epexegesis, therefore, were supposable in John Hi. ..."

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