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Definition
digressing (departing from the main point)
or:
proceeding to a conclusion by reason rather than intuition; e.g., a discursive essay
or:
proceeding to a conclusion by reason rather than intuition; e.g., a discursive essay
- —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.Book 1 — Miss Brooke (19% in)
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