expatiating

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noun

expatiation

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of expatiate

    Surely the time passed in expatiating on the reverend Doctor's faults was rather profitably passed than otherwise.

    1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 167
nounexpatiating (plural expatiatings)

plural expatiatings

  1. expatiation

    […] we can scarcely open, a book in which the habits and manners of animals are treated of, without meeting with numerous, fervent, and eloquent expatiatings on their sagacity […]

    1837, Charles Frederick Partington, The British Cyclopæedia of Natural History
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Chicago

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