expatiation

His brother-in-law paused in the middle of an expatiation on the business opportunities of the neighborhood.

The Commentary is an informative expatiation of Paulus' tersely written text, elaborating on practices and sources.

Xu mainly contributed to the further expatiation and the consummation of Wang's philosophy in this domain, and also further developed Wang's school of philosophy.

Verbosity (also called wordiness, prolixity, grandiloquence, garrulousness, expatiation, and logorrhea, informally verbal diarrhea) refers to speech or writing which is deemed to use an excess of words.

The central part between Frederick Street and Saint David Street was mostly closed in the 1970s to allow expatiation of the University of Otago campus.

This Thiru Eadu Vasippu, the ritual reading and expatiation of the Holy book Akilam, is an important religious observance of Ayyavazhi.

I have been drawing out to tiresome length a narrative which I must finish briefly; for there is a certain delicacy, a certain grace of soul, which an old man could not help offending by an complacent expatiation upon the sentiments of even the purest love.

The word was defined by its inventor, Milton A Smith, as "multiloquence characterized by consummate interfusion of circumlocution or periphrasis, inscrutability, and other familiar manifestations of abstruse expatiation commonly utilized for promulgations implementing Procrustean determinations by governmental bodies."