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explication /ɛksplɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n /noun [mass noun]1The process of analysing and developing an idea or principle in detail: this term is meaningless without further explication and analysis [count noun]: his explications of scientific concepts...- There is not room here for a full explication of these distinctively Lutheran perspectives.
- The moment itself seems beyond rational explication, but this is less important than the narrator's search for the proper artistic expression of it.
- His explications of scientific concepts can be equally reductionist.
1.1The process of analysing a literary work in order to reveal its meaning: careful reading and explication of classical texts...- The Good Soldier is a text well trodden by critical explication.
- Each essay is carefully balanced between situating the passage in its religious context and literary-critical explication of the text as such.
- Many people are devoted to the explication of the text but not to the experience of the text.
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