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discursive

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16
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19
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/dɪsˈkɜː(ɹ)sɪv/(UK)

Definition of discursive

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Of or concerning discourse.
    “This period had long since passed; the discursive reading, the enlightened discourse of her grandfather, had cast her mind in a different mould to the usual superstition of her country; but faith and love were only more pure and perfect in a soul too innocent not to be religious.”
    “This means, at times, long and perhaps overly discursive discussions of other taxa.”
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adj

  1. Of or concerning discourse.
    “This period had long since passed; the discursive reading, the enlightened discourse of her grandfather, had cast her mind in a different mould to the usual superstition of her country; but faith and love were only more pure and perfect in a soul too innocent not to be religious.”
    “This means, at times, long and perhaps overly discursive discussions of other taxa.”
  2. Of or concerning discourse.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French discursif, formed from the stem of Latin discursus and the suffix -if, and in part borrowed from Medieval Latin discursivus. By surface analysis, discourse + -ive.

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