expatiation

Example Sentences

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“Our shared hope and expatiation is that people on all sides show tolerance, mutual respect and restraint,” Mr. Nixon said.

From Washington Times • Nov. 24, 2014

Reading his manifesto for the job, and his previous expatiation on Europe's future, he does indeed come across as an integrationist of a vintage now well past its sell-by date.

From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2014

He had already played his part: the opening act of hateful bravura, unburdened by conscience, in what will be an extended expatiation of all guilt.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their narratives are calm, unimpassioned, and straightforward, without expatiation on the greatness of Christ's character and works and the wickedness of his enemies, as is the way of all excited enthusiasts.

From Companion to the Bible by Barrows, E. P. (Elijah Porter)

The inevitable monotony of the panegyrics on Honorius is relieved by just and brilliant expatiation on the duties of a sovereign.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various