1) Addition 2) Afterthought 3) Aside 4) Comment 5) Content 6) Departure 7) Detour 8) Deviation 9) Divagation 10) Excursus 11) Literary technique 12) Message 13) Parenthesis 14) Straying off the subject 15) Subject matter 16) Substance 17) The act of digressing
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1) Angen 2) A-side 3) Circuit 4) Divagation 5) Divergence 6) Excursus 7) Tangent
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- a message that departs from the main subject
- a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
- wandering from the main path of a journey
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Digression (parekbasis in Greek, egressio, digressio and excursion in Latin) is a section of a composition or speech that is an intentional change of subject. In Classical rhetoric since Corax of Syracuse, especially in Institutio Oratoria of Quintilian, the digression was a regular part of any oration or composition. After setting out the topic o...
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• (n.) A turning aside from the right path; transgression; offense. • (n.) The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject. • (n.) The elongation, or angular distance from the sun; -- said chiefly of the inferior planets.Digression: ...
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1. The act of digressing or deviating, especially. From the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject. 'The digressions I can not excuse otherwise, than by the confidence that no man will read them.' (Sir W. Temple) ... 2. A turning aside from the right path; transgression; offense. 'Then my...
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Di·gres'sion noun [ Latin
digressio : confer French
digression .]
1. The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject. « The
digressions I can not excuse otherwise, t...
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The introduction of material into some literary work which is only partially or completely unrelated to its main subject (dt. Abschweifung).
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n] - a message that departs from the main subject 2. [n] - wandering from the main path of a journey
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deflection noun a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); `a diversion from the main highway`; `a digression into irrelevant details`; `a deflection from his goal`
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aside 1 excursus noun a message that departs from the main subject
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the act of digressing. · a passage or section that deviates from the central theme in speech or writing.
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a message that departs from the main subject
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