2. Verb. (present participle of explain) ¹
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Definition of Explaining
1. explain [v] - See also: explain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Explaining
Literary usage of Explaining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1885)
"\n Essay on Vision, briefly explaining the fabric of the eye' (1789). 4.
'Astronomical and j Geographical Essays' (1790). 5. 'A Short I Dissertation on the ..."
2. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"On the best mode of explaining the Scriptural prophecies. ... relative to that
mode of explaining scriptural prophecies, which has ever since been adopted ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"The machine boing inclosed, and comparatively noiseless, the plaintiff did not
discover that It was running, and, In explaining to his co-employe, ..."
4. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... without explaining tho mutter to nny of the other confederates. Tho Lacedemonians
and allies followed, indeed, as ho led them, out of respect for tho ..."
5. The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres: Or, An Introduction by Charles Rollin (1804)
"For would it not be insupportable in explaining the admirable book ... OF WHAT
IS PRINCIPALLY TO BE OBSERVED IN THE explaining AUTHORS IN THE HIGHER CLASSES ..."
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