Lexicographical Neighbors of Digressionary
Literary usage of Digressionary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memorials of Shakspeare: Or, Sketches of His Character and Genius by Nathan Drake (1828)
"... A plague on all cowards still," yet such are the taste, talents, and brilliancy
of expression poured out upon the digressionary topics just mentioned, ..."
2. The Military Life of Field-Marshal George First Marquess Townshend, 1724 by Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend (1901)
"The abusive writer's phraseology is so wildly scattered, and digressionary, that
it is but seldom one can grapple with anything like a ..."
3. The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow by Isaac Barrow, William Whewell (1859)
"These digressionary discourses (which yet I thought pertinent to the design of
our business, declaring and confirming the grounds of our faith) being thus ..."
4. The Literary Examiner: Consisting of the Indicator, a Review of Books, and by Leigh Hunt (1823)
"Among much pleasant-matter of this digressionary description, we are favoured
with a few piquant observations upon the comparative pleasure of loving and ..."
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