explanification

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

explain +‎ -ify +‎ -ation, modelled after clarification.

Noun[edit]

explanification (plural explanifications)

  1. An explanation.
    • 1844, Hugo Playfair, Brother Jonathan, page 124:
      Square, you be a Britisher, and it be no manner of calculation to make explanification wid you, but I guess, if Van Buren and Congress don't go to rail war for disputed territory, Maine will.