exegetic

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There are songs, too, as in Brecht’s original text — exegetic tunes that the characters break into — set to new music by Sam Day Harmet, who performs here with Erica Mancini and Stephen LaRosa.

From New York Times • May 25, 2022

Attempts to make sense of the disjuncture and of what it may entail or suggest fill library shelves of exegetic prose.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

The word seemed to afford Dr. Mulbridge the degree of relief which can come only from an exactly significant and luminously exegetic word.

From Dr. Breen's Practice by Howells, William Dean

This strange autograph Letter the National Assembly decides on printing; on transmitting to the Eighty-three Departments, with exegetic commentary, short but pithy.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Matthieu, after an exegetic hint to Zeusel, took the liberty of being of Culpepper's opinion in regard to the Prince's gout.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul