Definition of Digressing

1. Verb. (present participle of digress) ¹

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Definition of Digressing

1. digress [v] - See also: digress

Lexicographical Neighbors of Digressing

digoxigenins
digoxin
digoxin toxicity
digoxins
digoxygenin
digram
digrams
digraph
digraphia
digraphic
digraphically
digraphs
digress
digressed
digresses
digressing (current term)
digression
digressional
digressionary
digressions
digressive
digressively
digressiveness
digs
digs out
digs up
diguanide
diguanides
diguanidinobutanase
diguanylate cyclase

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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