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epexegesis

[ ep-ek-si-jee-sis ]

noun

, Rhetoric.
, plural ep·ex·e·ge·ses [ep-ek-si-, jee, -seez].
  1. the addition of a word or words to explain a preceding word or sentence.
  2. the word or words so added.


epexegesis

/ ɛˌpɛksɪˈdʒɛtɪk; ɛˌpɛksɪˈdʒiːsɪs /

noun

  1. the addition of a phrase, clause, or sentence to a text to provide further explanation
  2. the phrase, clause, or sentence added for this purpose
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • epˌexeˈgetically, adverb
  • epexegetic, adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of epexegesis1

First recorded in 1615–25, epexegesis is from the Greek word epexḗgēsis explanation. See ep-, exegesis
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Word History and Origins

Origin of epexegesis1

C17: from Greek; see epi- , exegesis
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Example Sentences

Epexegesis, ep-eks-e-jē′sis, n. the addition of words to make the sentence more clear.—adjs.

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.

The terms epexegesis and epexegetical are used by expositors in a special sense to denote something explanatory of the immediate context.

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