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Literary notes about Expound (AI summary)

The term "expound" is frequently employed in literature to denote the act of elucidating, interpreting, or elaborating upon ideas and texts with careful detail. It appears in a range of contexts—from clarifying legal arguments or philosophical doctrines, as seen when Plato’s work is discussed [1], to interpreting religious parables and sacred mysteries in canonical texts [2][3]. Authors also use the word to highlight the speaker’s effort to articulate complex theories or personal insights, as in Shakespeare’s expression of moral undertones [4] or Rousseau’s commitment to expanding his philosophical ideas [5]. Moreover, it serves to suggest the intellectual rigor behind the unpacking of often ambiguous or enigmatic subjects, whether they pertain to poetry, prophecy, or even abstract dreams [6][7].
  1. Will you allow me then to explain how I should have liked to have heard you expound the matter? CLEINIAS:
    — from Laws by Plato
  2. And Peter answering, said to him: Expound to us this parable.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  3. .That is, declare or expound the mysteries of faith.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  4. Faith, nothing; but has left me here behind to expound the meaning or moral of his signs and tokens.
    — from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
  5. All my ideas are consistent, but I cannot expound them all at once.
    — from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  6. I was already longing to expound the cherished ideas I had brooded over in my corner.
    — from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  7. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
    — from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

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