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Definition of Explanation

Explanation The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty. That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory explanation. The meaning attributed to anything by one who explains it; definition; interpretation; sense. A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an explanation. Related Definitions: Act, Adjust, Agreement, An, And, Anything, As, Attributed, By, Clear, Clearing, Come, Contract, Definition, Explaining, Explanation, Exposition, Expounding, From, In, Intelligible, Interpretation, Interpreting, It, Making, Meaning, Misunderstanding, Mutual, Obscurity, Of, One, Or, Passage, Reconcile, Reconciliation, Satisfactory, Scripture, Sense, That, The, To, Treaty, View, Which, Who, With

Explanation Quotations Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. Anais Nin To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. Saint Thomas Aquinas There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. George Eliot Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it. Lafcadio Hearn Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. David Herbert Lawrence

Explanation Translations explanation in Afrikaans is verduideliking explanation in Danish is forklaring explanation in Dutch is toelichting, explicatie explanation in Italian is definizione, interpretazione, spiegazione explanation in Latin is explicatus explanation in Norwegian is forklaring

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