Definition of exposition

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Exposition (n.) The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.

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Interpretation :: Interpretation (n.) The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture..
Paraphrase :: Paraphrase (n.) A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; -- opposed to metaphrase..
Commentary :: Commentary (v. i.) A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work..
Explanation :: Explanation (n.) A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an explanation..
Exposition :: Exposition (n.) The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.
Excursus :: Excursus (n.) A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic..
Postillation :: Postillation (n.) The act of postillating; exposition of Scripture in preaching.
Enucleation :: Enucleation (n.) The act of enucleating; elucidation; exposition.
Preposition :: Preposition (n.) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
Explication :: Explication (n.) The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation..
Halacha :: Halacha (n.) The general term for the Hebrew oral or traditional law; one of two branches of exposition in the Midrash. See Midrash.
Commentation :: Commentation (n.) The act or process of commenting or criticising; exposition.
Exposition :: Exposition (n.) Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an easterly exposition; an exposition to the sun..
Enarration :: Enarration (n.) A detailed exposition; relation.
Rationale :: Rationale (a.) An explanation or exposition of the principles of some opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, or the like; also, the principles themselves..
Exposition :: Exposition (n.) The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary..
Exposition :: Exposition (n.) A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the Paris Exposition of 1878..
Comment :: Comment (n.) A note or observation intended to explain, illustrate, or criticise the meaning of a writing, book, etc.; explanation; annotation; exposition..
Nomography :: Nomography (n.) A treatise on laws; an exposition of the form proper for laws.
Expository :: Expository (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical..
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