epexegesis

American  

[ep-ek-si-jee-sis] / ɛpˌɛk sɪˈdʒi sɪs /

noun

Rhetoric.

PLURAL

epexegeses

1. the addition of a word or words to explain a preceding word or sentence.

2. the word or words so added.

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epexegesis British  

/ 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

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Other Word Forms

• epexegetic adjective
• epexegetically adverb

Etymology

Origin of epexegesis

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

Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg