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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
expound .
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Examples
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It was there that Letwin expounded the central ethos of the Cameron policy towards the EU, which amounts to a belief that that Britain needed membership of the EU.
A very slight inconsistency Richard 2006
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St. St.phen's audiences have listened to some of the world's best orators, and have had the word expounded by superior doctors of divinity.
Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. Jack Thorne
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So St. Stephen's audiences have listened to some of the world's best orators, and have had the word expounded by superior doctors of divinity.
Hanover; or, The Persecution of the Lowly. Story of the Wilmington Massacre 1863
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[48] Origen would have the word expounded in Christian houses.
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842
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Scrotes, as was his use, delved to the root of the word and expounded its meaning as that which befits a man.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Scrotes, as was his use, delved to the root of the word and expounded its meaning as that which befits a man.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Lêng-yen-ching expounded, that is, read aloud with an extempore paraphrase, to lay congregations in China, and the section of it called the Diamond Cutter is the book which is most commonly in the hands of religious Tibetans.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896
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[478] See this phrase expounded in _Works_ ( 'Book of Fallacies'), ii.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Leslie Stephen 1868
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If they did, the two principal political dilemma expounded in Eran Riklis's - Lemon Tree, - which he co-wrote with Saha Araf, would not exist.
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If they did, the two principal political dilemma expounded in Eran Riklis's - Lemon Tree, - which he co-wrote with Saha Araf, would not exist.
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