exegetic

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Mr. Bottum’s use of a reference in a parable to prove a specific doctrine is also exegetically wooden, failing to acknowledge the nature of that genre.

From The Wall Street Journal

You can sense his relief when he declares that the “main emphasis” of his book is “exegetic”.

From The Guardian

Ms. Clarke does enlist a few talking heads, but her heart obviously isn’t in it: the interviews are framed within cartoon television sets, as if to trivialize the whole exegetic process.

From New York Times

He drew, therefore, in the transcribing, under many a fine declaration of love, or kindred sentiment, an exegetic line, and figured intelligently his thoroughbass.

From Project Gutenberg

Now the passages which require exegetic manipulation are in general those which seem opposed to reason.

From Project Gutenberg