All 8 Uses
exposition
in
The Divine Comedy -- translated by Cary
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- who more than seven times
Security hast render'd me, and drawn
From peril deep, whereto I stood expos'd,
Desert me not," I cried, "in this extreme.†Canto 1.1-11expos = collections of things on public display - who hath himself
Uplifted: from his girdle upwards all
Expos'd behold him.†Canto 1.1-11 - Forthwith that image vile of fraud appear'd,
His head and upper part expos'd on land,
But laid not on the shore his bestial train.†Canto 1.12-22 - I felt as those who, piercing not the drift
Of answer made them, stand as if expos'd
In mockery, nor know what to reply,
When Virgil thus admonish'd: "Tell him quick,
I am not he, not he, whom thou believ'st."†Canto 1.12-22 - As in that season, when the sun least veils
His face that lightens all, what time the fly
Gives way to the shrill gnat, the peasant then
Upon some cliff reclin'd, beneath him sees
Fire-flies innumerous spangling o'er the vale,
Vineyard or tilth, where his day-labour lies:
With flames so numberless throughout its space
Shone the eighth chasm, apparent, when the depth
Was to my view expos'd.†Canto 1.23 - Soon as we came
O'er the last cloister in the dismal rounds
Of Malebolge, and the brotherhood
Were to our view expos'd, then many a dart
Of sore lament assail'd me, headed all
With points of thrilling pity, that I clos'd
Both ears against the volley with mine hands.†Canto 1.23 - Full thirty ample palms was he expos'd
Downward from whence a man his garments loops.†Canto 1.23 - And they, of Portugal
And Norway, there shall be expos'd with him
Of Ratza, who hath counterfeited ill
The coin of Venice.†Canto 3.12-22 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(exposition as in: character exposition) a detailed explanation or background of a specific topic
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(2)
(exposition as in: energy exposition in Dubai) a public show or exhibition of a collection of things
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) A comprehensive dictionary will contain specialized meanings in music, literature, and theatre.