Definition of Digressiveness

1. Noun. The quality or state of being digressive. ¹

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Definition of Digressiveness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Digressiveness

digraph
digraphia
digraphic
digraphically
digraphs
digress
digressed
digresses
digressing
digression
digressional
digressionary
digressions
digressive
digressively
digressiveness (current term)
digs
digs out
digs up
diguanide
diguanides
diguanidinobutanase
diguanylate cyclase
digynia
digynian
digynous
dihadron
dihalide
dihalides

Literary usage of Digressiveness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Influence of Milton on English Poetry by Raymond Dexter Havens (1922)
"The inevitable formlessness and digressiveness of the long nature poem brought it into disrepute among more critical readers.1 Pope sneered at his own early ..."

2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"... this subject to a Prince, as well as the remarks a Town-Syndic made on it to myself, are too remarkable to be omitted for mere dread of digressiveness. ..."

3. History of Prose Fiction by John Colin Dunlop, Henry Wilson (1888)
"Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (1763-1825) carries irregularity, capricious disorder, and digressiveness, to an almost intolerable.1 extent, to which only ..."

4. History of Prose Fiction by John Colin Dunlop (1896)
"Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (1763-1825) carries irregularity, capricious disorder, and digressiveness, to an almost intolerable extent, to which only talent ..."

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