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

She leaves her own home on a Sabbath morning in quest of a living expositor, yet not knowing where to find one.

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That all is an ideal description of something which the expositor himself is unable to define.

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A few of these men set up a printing-press and published a paper that they called the Nauvoo Expositor.

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A recent English expositor has pointed out the direction in which we must seek the interpretation of this difficult passage.

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The expositor has done his work in a most masterly fashion.Glasgow Herald.

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