explication

Meaning

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of opening or unfolding.
  2. (countable, dated, formal, uncountable) The act of explaining; an explanation.
  3. (countable, uncountable) The sense given by an expositor.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French explication, from Latin explicatio, explicationem.

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