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explication

[ ek-spli-key-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the act of explicating.
  2. an explanation; interpretation:

    He gave a brilliant explication of James Joyce's book.



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Other Word Forms

  • e··tDz noun
  • -p·tDz noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of explication1

1520–30; < Middle French < Latin پō- (stem of پō ). See explicate, -ion
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Example Sentences

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But you can just as easily read it as a lucid explication of Rousseau’s ideas about human nature, or as a slippery narrative told by a not-quite-reliable narrator who’s trying to get away with murder.

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More extensive explication is available via the reliable "Star Wars" online encyclopedia of your choice.

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Numerous explications of this remarkable document are available from many different media sources; criminologist and Trump expert Gregg Barak supplied an analysis for Salon over the weekend.

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“Clock” leans too heavily on too-obvious visual metaphors, but it’s still a vivid and visceral explication of one woman’s fears.

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“My life required explication,” Hudes writes in “My Broken Language,” her autobiographical new play at the Signature Theater.

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explicateˌˈپDz