expounded

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of Expound

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Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International. James P. Cannon

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness. Frederick William Robertson

A lot is said about children having stronger psychic ability because they're so unjaded and innocent. This excruciating view of children is generally expounded by people who think like children and perhaps can be forgiven. Derren Brown

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell. Marquis de Sade

UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse. Ambrose Bierce

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. Ambrose Bierce