expository
[ik-spoz-i-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]
- of the nature of exposition;exposition; serving to expound, set forth, or explain: an expository essay; expository writing.
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Also ex·pos·i·tive [ik-spoz-i-tiv] /ɪkˈspɒz ɪ tɪv/.
Origin of expository
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Talk should proceed by instances; by the apposite, not the expository.
The Pocket R.L.S.Robert Louis Stevenson
But the specialist temperament is often not a generalizing and expository temperament.
First and Last ThingsH. G. Wells
Expository writing is commonly divided into Definition and Analysis.
Expository WritingMervin James Curl
Interesting our expository writing must be; it must also be truthful.
Expository WritingMervin James Curl
That also was an expository sermon, as the best preaching so often is.
A Year in EuropeWalter W. Moore
expository
expositive
- of, involving, or assisting in exposition; explanatory
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Word Origin and History for expository
adj.
1620s, from Medieval Latin expositorius, from expositus, past participle of exponere (see expound). Earlier in English as a noun meaning "an expository treatise, commentary" (early 15c.).
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