Forms

Epexegesis

1.* the addition of a word or words to explain a preceding word or sentence. *2.* the word or words so added.    But you did establish personal contact? In *epexegesis* or on a    point of order?    -- James Joyce, Finnegan's Wake    One of the most striking peculiarities of colloquial speech in    Dutch, and of natural free talk in general, is what is called    *epexegesis.*    -- Jan Gonda, Selected Studies

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