Today's Word "exegesis"
A critical explanation of a text
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exegesis \ek-suh-JEE-sis\ (noun) plural exegeses \-seez\ - Exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text.
"No variety of love is too trivial for exegesis. No aspect of love is so ridiculous that it hasn't been exhaustively reviewed by the great thinkers, the great artists, and the great hosts of daytime talk shows." -- P. J. O'Rourke, Eat the Rich
Exegesis comes from Greek, from exegeisthai, "to explain, to interpret," from ex-, "out of" + hegeisthai, "to lead, to guide." Thus an exegesis is, at root, "a leading or guiding out of" a complexity.
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