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
His field is illimitable; his expatiation in it is practically untrammelled.
From Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury
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 Giles Lytton Strachey
