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Definition of Excursiveness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excursiveness
Literary usage of Excursiveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Autobiography by Herbert ( Spencer (1904)
"The mental excursiveness exemplified during previous years is thus variously
exemplified afresh. This mental excursiveness occasionally had useful results. ..."
2. Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects by John Frederick William Herschel (1871)
"The excursiveness was innate, the pedantry superinduced —the result of their
perpetual rhetorical conflicts and literary competitions. ..."
3. Poets and Prose Writers of New South Wales by George Burnett Barton (1866)
"The masterly writer in the Leader already referred to, notices what must have
struck every reader of De Quincey,—the excursiveness which is so frequently a ..."
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