exegesis
noun
, ˈek-sə-ˌjē-\
, ˈek-sə-ˌjē- \
Definition of exegesis
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Synonyms for exegesis
Synonyms
clarification, construction, elucidation, explanation, explication, exposition, illumination, illustration, interpretation, road map
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Segal has brought together here odds and ends from a writing life: short stories, short essays, biblical exegesis, as well as selections from her novels, making it a fitting bookend to a long career and an excellent introduction to her work. — Madeleine Schwartz, Harper's magazine, "Warm, Weird, Effervescent," 10 June 2019 That the television shows were perfectly comprehensible and didn’t require much actual exegesis didn’t matter, because people clicked anyway. — Christian Lorentzen, Harper's magazine, "Like This or Die," 10 Apr. 2019 One of them composed elaborate critical exegeses for thirty imaginary microfictions; based on these, the other wrote the stories themselves. — Luc Sante, Harper's magazine, "A Crew of Variegated Weirdos," 10 Jan. 2019 The pace of exegesis is at all times unhurried; Mr. Osborne is intent on telling us everything. — Joseph Horowitz, WSJ, "‘Opera as Opera' Review: The Life in a Dead Art Form," 23 Aug. 2018 This entire episode is about reading and interpreting, knowing and not knowing: This jacket’s brief message has drawn us all into the task of exegesis — the critical explanation of a text. — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, "The Jacket Heard Round the World," 22 June 2018 More: Jeff Sessions: No asylum for victims of domestic abuse, gang violence How do Christians feel about his exegesis? — Emily Mcfarlan Miller And Yonat Shimron, USA TODAY, "Why is Jeff Sessions quoting Romans 13 and why is the bible verse so often invoked?," 16 June 2018 There are reams of books and entire universities dedicated to promoting this exegesis. — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, "What’s Next for Evangelicalism?," 7 June 2018 While Richards’ interpretations of poems tend to be cranky and elliptical, the models of careful exegesis supplied by New Critics were designed to show newcomers to literature how it might be done. — Timothy Aubry, New Republic, "The Paradoxical Politics of Literary Criticism," 12 Oct. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'exegesis.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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