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Definition of Digressing
1. digress [v] - See also: digress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Digressing
Literary usage of Digressing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. by Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth (1820)
"1 cannot help digressing here, to propose a curious argument, derived from this
principle, against the church of Rome—which I do not remember to have seen. ..."
2. Public Characters by Alexander Stephens (1807)
"In digressing thus far,. I trust I have not overstepped thc- limits within which
the writer of the Grecian history ..."
3. The Politics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1885)
"We are also surprised at his digressing from the Laws of Hippo- damus to the
general question whether laws should or should not be changed. ..."
4. Correspondence of John C. Calhoun by John Caldwell Calhoun, John Franklin Jameson, William Pinckney Starke (1900)
"But I am digressing far from the matter which led me to take up the pen. . . .
Truly yours RK CRALL*: From JL ..."
5. The London Medical Gazette (1829)
"... though with temperance and moderation, put a etop to any one who is digressing
from the subject of discussion, or in any way infringing upon the rules ..."
6. The Reproof of Brutus by John Minter Morgan (1830)
"... of Bramford Grove—Close of day—Atticus censures the Author for digressing from
his subject— Reminds him of the censures of criticism—Modern Critics. ..."
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