The Only Use of
discursive
in
Middlemarch
- —she, hardly more than a budding woman, but yet with an active conscience and a great mental need, not to be satisfied by a girlish instruction comparable to the nibblings and judgments of a discursive mouse.†
Chpt 1
Definitions:
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(1)
(discursive) digressing (departing from the main point)
or:
proceeding to a conclusion by reason rather than intuition; e.g., a discursive essay -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus