expound
verb (used with object)
to set forth or state in detail.
had expounded
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past perfectof expound.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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It also fell to Kosygin to fill in the disillusioning details of the ninth Five-Year Plan, which Brezhnev had expounded in glowing generalities at the start of the Congress.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dissatisfied with his own excellence, filled with a deep sense of the unapproachable ideal, he reverenced the ancient faith and the opinions of those who had expounded it.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell
"I give not my daughter to an ape," he retorted, when Uriel had expounded himself as usual.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
While living in an old and shattered social order, he had championed a new order of society and had expounded a new culture.
From Bars and Shadows by Ralph Chaplin
"He has sent your Grace a letter," replied Sir David, "wherein he told me he had expounded the reasons and causes of his protecting Douglas, hoping your Grace will approve the same."
From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt
