explanification
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]explain + -ify + -ation, modelled after clarification.
Noun
[edit]explanification (plural explanifications)
- 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.