Both Uses
discourse
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
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- But the "humane" Andrey Semyonovitch ascribed Pyotr Petrovitch's ill-humour to his recent breach with Dounia and he was burning with impatience to discourse on that theme.†
Chpt 5.1 *
- In public conveyances and shops, wherever she could capture a listener, she would begin the discourse about her son, his article, how he had helped the student, how he had been burnt at the fire, and so on!†
Chpt Epil.
Definitions:
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(1)
(discourse) a serious speech, writing, or conversation on a particular topic
or much more rarely: to speak or write formally on a particular topic; or to have a conversation - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)