expositor

[ ik-spoz-i-ter ]

noun

1. a person who expounds or gives an exposition.

expositor

/ ɪkˈspɒzɪtə /

noun

1. a person who expounds

Other Words From

• ex·pos·i·to·ri·al [ik-spoz-i-, tawr, -ee-, uh, l, -, tohr, -], adjective
• ex·posi·tori·al·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of expositor¹

1300–50; Middle English (< Anglo-French ) < Late Latin expositor exegete ( Latin: one who exposes a child), equivalent to exposi-, variant stem of expōnere ( expose ) + -tor -tor

Example Sentences

In a statement, Thomas F. Rosenbaum, the president of Caltech, called Dr. Stone “a great scientist, a formidable leader and a gifted expositor of discovery.”

From New York Times

John Mercer of Maryland, likewise, said that he “disapproved of the Doctrine that the Judges as expositors of the Constitution should have the authority to declare a law void.”

From New York Times

As a scholar and a jurist, Scalia was the chief expositor of the judicial philosophy known as originalism.

From The New Yorker

“A polymath, a discerner of Nature’s fundamental patterns, and, as such, an expositor for the connections of physics to other disciplines, Murray helped define the approaches of generations of scientists.”

From Washington Post

“Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi are, respectively, the progenitor and the expositor of the world view of the current President of the United States.”

From The New Yorker

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