re-explicate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Alternative form of reexplicate (“to explain again.”).
Example Sentences
- "The design also made it possible to re-explicate the entirety of the structure in terms of its multifarious reproducible parts, and detailed diagrams represented, and re-represented, its ingenious simplicity, its elementary logic, over and over again."
- "The papers focus strongly on two modes of being—the feminine, or the empathy-love model, and the masculine, or the power-control model—and on their psychological outcomes, which are the relational self and the individual self, respectively. These discussions provide an opportunity to re-explicate some gender-related stereotyped behavior."
- "[…] no respectable literatus wants the responsibility of firing the gun that will set the young scholars off on their plodding race to re-explicate what any sensitive reader has long since seen to be one of the unassailably transcendental poetic achievements of the modern age."
- "He spent the rest of his philosophical career trying to simplify and re-explicate what were essentially extracts from the Treatise for an audience he rightly felt did not sufficiently appreciate the complexity of his magnum opus."