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Definition of Digressed
1. digress [v] - See also: digress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Digressed
Literary usage of Digressed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Léopold Delisle, Guizot (François) (1854)
"Let us now return to the course of our history, from which I have somewhat digressed.
Cu. XIV. Disturbances on the banks of the Eure in the Vexin —Account ..."
2. A Synopsis of Popery, as it was and as it is by William Hogan (1847)
"I have here digressed from the purpose of this volume. ... But to return to the
point from which we have, in a measure, digressed. ..."
3. The Life of John Milton by Charles Symmons (1822)
"But I have digressed too largely from my proper subject; and I must now give the
dedication, which I have engaged myself to transcribe. ..."
4. Works by Jean Calvin, Calvin translation society (1848)
"The Apostle now returns to the particular question, from which he had for a little
digressed, for, lest bare doctrine should have little effect among them, ..."
5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"I have thus far digressed, because this imagination is the medium deferens of
passions, by whose means they work and produce ..."
6. Chancellor Kent at Yale, 1777-1781: A Paper Written for the Yale Law Journal by Macgrane Coxe (1909)
"40, P- 752)-1 But we have already digressed too far and we must return now to
our particular business, which is the relation of this great man to Yale. ..."
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