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Definition of Digressively
1. adv. By way of digression.
Definition of Digressively
1. Adverb. In a digressive fashion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Digressively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Digressively
Literary usage of Digressively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1857)
"... to talk tediously, digressively, incoherently. Pant, or Pant-well, a pump or
well, common to a town or village. Firms, a worsted cap, usually red or ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"But this digressively. What we would say is briefly this. Ko man fights for nothing.
A soldier for ninepence a-day. A quiet man for a quiet life. ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1842)
"The very point That I would urge—but better pleaded—less digressively than
garrulous old age Might shape the case. We neither of us have A claim upon the ..."
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