elucidation
Noun
Meaning
A making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration; as, one example may serve for further elucidation of the subject.
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the professor's clarification helped her to understand the textbook
I never met any one in Persia, either eel or moolla, who could give the least elucidation of this question.
For me, religious practice is primary; the philosophical project consists in an elucidation of the significance of that practice and of the religious life that embeds the practice.
"Rebirth," "Birth," and terms facsimile are contemporary whose jargon I thought was common knowledge and did not need elucidation.
“Svenonius’ true might with these written words is in his eloquence, his persuasive elucidation of his arguments and his convincing invocation of history as backing evidence.”
He later explains, "I had stupidly supposed this Comment to be a scholarly exposition of the Book, an elucidation of its obscurities and a demonstration of its praeterhuman origin.