divagation

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Definition of divagation

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(countable, uncountable)Straying off from a course or way.

“It was after the complete revelation that he understood the romantic innuendoes with which his childhood had been surrounded, and of which he had never caught the meaning; they having seemed but part and parcel of the habitual and promiscuous divagations of his too constructive companion. When it came over him that, for years, she had made a fool of him, to himself and to others, he could have beaten her, for grief and shame […]”
“But this was a divagation, and he pulled himself back to the askings of the moment”

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noun

(countable, uncountable)Straying off from a course or way.

“It was after the complete revelation that he understood the romantic innuendoes with which his childhood had been surrounded, and of which he had never caught the meaning; they having seemed but part and parcel of the habitual and promiscuous divagations of his too constructive companion. When it came over him that, for years, she had made a fool of him, to himself and to others, he could have beaten her, for grief and shame […]”
“But this was a divagation, and he pulled himself back to the askings of the moment”
(countable, uncountable)Incoherent or wandering speech and thought.

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Nominalization of divagate (from the Latin verb divagare) + -ion (from the Latin suffix -io).

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