expatiation

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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

Everybody knows all about the night's accessories—'ses odeurs, ses voix, ses voluptés molles'; and what a relief it is to be spared, for once in a way, an elaborate expatiation upon them!

From Books and Characters French and English by Strachey, Giles Lytton

The active power, though one only, is indirectly describable as of three kinds, the possession of the swiftness of thought, the power of assuming forms at will, and the faculty of expatiation.

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava