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

His other works consisted of theological essays, ascetic or exegetic, questions of ecclesiastical discipline and reform, and of various polemical writings called forth for the most part by the schism.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Every surface is teeming underneath with hidden meanings, obscure interpretations and exegetic excesses.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel

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