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verb

Digress v. i. (past & past part. digressed; pres. part. digressing)

To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking. "Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude." "In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term."

To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend. (R.) "Thy abundant goodness shall excuse This deadly blot on thy digressing son."

noun

Digress n. Digression. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Digress" Quotes from Famous Books

... of its realism has been pointed out already; the masterly use of the principles of suspense and stimulated interest will hardly pass unnoticed. A negative excellence is the absence of that discursiveness in composition, that tendency to digress into superfluous comment, which is this author's one prevailing fault. De Quincey was gifted with a fine appreciation of harmonious sound, and in those passages where his spirit soars highest not the least of their beauties is found in the melodiousness of their tone and the ...

— De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars • Thomas De Quincey

... gradual, graduate, degrade, digress, Congress, aggressive, progressive, degree; (2) gradation, Centigrade, ingress, ...

— The Century Vocabulary Builder • Creever & Bachelor

... of place to digress a moment to illustrate the moral effect of such a convulsion. Several weeks after this great mine explosion, the 18th Army Corps, to which I then belonged, was holding a line of works recently captured from the rebels, about six miles from Richmond, when one night the colonel commanding Fort Harrison, ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 • Various

... digress to speak of some other work that my sister did during the time she lived in Aldershot. Both she and Major Ewing took great interest in the amateur concerts and private musical performances that took place ...

— Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books • Horatia K. F. Eden

... But I digress among these after-thoughts. I had no time to reflect upon "compressions of the tongue" or "spasms of the glottis." My antagonist soon finished his reconnaissance of me, and, dropping upon all-fours and uttering a loud scream, rushed towards me with ...

— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid

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