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DETAILING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An individualized description of a particular instance
Synonyms:
detailing; particularisation; particularization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("detailing" is a kind of...):
description (the act of describing something)
Derivation:
detail (provide details for)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb detail
Context examples:
I cannot imagine that she will not be continually insulting her visitor with praise, encouragement, and offers of service; that she will not be continually detailing her magnificent intentions, from the procuring her a permanent situation to the including her in those delightful exploring parties which are to take place in the barouche-landau.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
In the course of the tale I had mentioned Mr. Lloyd as having come to see me after the fit: for I never forgot the, to me, frightful episode of the red-room: in detailing which, my excitement was sure, in some degree, to break bounds; for nothing could soften in my recollection the spasm of agony which clutched my heart when Mrs. Reed spurned my wild supplication for pardon, and locked me a second time in the dark and haunted chamber.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Henry Crawford was in the first glow of another scheme about Thornton Lacey; and not being able to catch Edmund's ear, was detailing it to his fair neighbour with a look of considerable earnestness.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The Bertrams were all forgotten in detailing the faults of Rebecca, against whom Susan had also much to depose, and little Betsey a great deal more, and who did seem so thoroughly without a single recommendation, that Fanny could not help modestly presuming that her mother meant to part with her when her year was up.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
