different between clarification vs exegesis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French clarification, from Latin cl?rific?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klæ??f??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

clarification (countable and uncountable, plural clarifications)

1. The act of clarifying; the act or process of making clear or transparent by freeing visible impurities; particularly, the clearing or fining of liquid substances from feculent matter by the separation of the insoluble particles which prevent the liquid from being transparent.

2. The act of freeing from obscurities.

Quotations

• 1627, Sir Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: Or a Natural History in Ten Centuries

  To know the means of accelerating clarification [in liquors] we must know the causes of clarification.

Related terms

• clarifier
• clarify

Translations

See also

• qualification
• sedimentation

References

• clarification in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French clarification, from Latin cl?rific?ti?; equivalent to clarifier +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kla.?i.fi.ka.sj??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

clarification f (plural clarifications)

1. clarification

Related terms

• see clair

Further reading

• “clarification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cl?rific?ti?.

Noun

clarification f (plural clarifications)

1. clarification

Descendants

• French: clarification
• ? English: clarification

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (ex?g?sis, “interpretation”), from ????????? (ex?géomai, “I explain, interpret”), from ?? (ex, “out”) + ??????? (h?géomai, “I lead, guide”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ks??d?i?s?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ks??d?is?s/

Noun

exegesis (countable and uncountable, plural exegeses)

1. A critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially a religious text.
   • 1885, Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson (original translators and editors), Arthur Cleveland Coxe (editor of American edition), Philip Schaff (also credited as editor), Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II

     Accordingly Athanasius complains loudly of their exegesis (Ep. Æg. 3–4, cf. Orat. i. 8, 52), and insists (id. i. 54, cf. already de Decr. 14) on the primary necessity of always conscientiously studying the circumstances of time and place, the person addressed, the subject matter, and purpose of the writer, in order not to miss the true sense.

   • 1913, Francis Aveling, Rationalism, article in Catholic Encyclopedia (1913),

     As with Deism and Materialism, the German Rationalism invaded the department of Biblical exegesis.

   • 1940, Mortimer J. Adler, Two Essays on Docility,

     Historical scholarship bears exclusively on interpretive reading; when it is properly subordinated as a means, its end is exegesis; all of its techniques are of service to the grammatical art. But exegesis is not the end; nor is grammar the highest art. Exegesis is for the sake of a fair critical judgment, grammar for the sake of logic and rhetoric.

Related terms

• eisegesis
• epexegesis
• exegete
• exegetical

Translations

See also

• eisegesis
• hermeneutics

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (ex?g?sis, “interpretation”).

Noun

ex?g?sis f (genitive ex?g?sis); third declension

1. exegesis
2. exposition

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).