Meaning of chapter and verse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The chapter number and verse number (within a particular book) that locate a quotation from the Bible.
   literally, uncountable
2. Specific references from an authoritative book or document, cited to support a statement or position.
   uncountable
3. Very full and detailed information.
   informal, uncountable

Examples

“In the other dispute (“Did Jesus anywhere claim to be God?”) the same kind of men—trained and learned clergymen—backed up their arguments with chapter and verse.”

“‘I deny the first statement,’ said the Good Stockbroker heatedly. He was always heated where questions of morality were concerned, and was proceeding to give chapter and verse for what promised to become a somewhat dull discussion when the Bluestocking firmly interposed in her small staccato pipe:[…]”

“The main suspect refused to answer any questions, but the police got chapter and verse from his accomplice.”

“She abounded in news of the situation at home, proved to him how perfectly she was arranging for his absence, told him who would take up this and who take up that exactly where he had left it, gave him in fact chapter and verse for the moral that nothing would suffer.”

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