Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In or as an explanatory addition; for the purpose of additional explanation: as, a clause introduced epexegetically; the infinitive may be used epexegetically.
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Examples
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Sam is an instance of asyndeton (for "and put") used epexegetically:
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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That is what the orator calls a _knock-down_ argument; and when he wishes to be particularly convincing and eloquent, he throws at you such brick-bats and bars of iron as incomprehensibility -- epexegetically -- anthropopathically -- so fast that you have scarcely a chance to dodge one before another comes whizzing along.
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