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Definition of Digressiveness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Digressiveness
Literary usage of Digressiveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Influence of Milton on English Poetry by Raymond Dexter Havens (1922)
"The inevitable formlessness and digressiveness of the long nature poem brought
it into disrepute among more critical readers.1 Pope sneered at his own early ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"... this subject to a Prince, as well as the remarks a Town-Syndic made on it to
myself, are too remarkable to be omitted for mere dread of digressiveness. ..."
3. History of Prose Fiction by John Colin Dunlop, Henry Wilson (1888)
"Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (1763-1825) carries irregularity, capricious disorder,
and digressiveness, to an almost intolerable.1 extent, to which only ..."
4. History of Prose Fiction by John Colin Dunlop (1896)
"Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (1763-1825) carries irregularity, capricious disorder,
and digressiveness, to an almost intolerable extent, to which only talent ..."
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