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Definition
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
or much more rarely: to speak or write formally on a particular topic; or to have a conversation
- She acknowledged it to be very fitting, that every little social commonwealth should dictate its own matters of discourse; and hoped, ere long, to become a not unworthy member of the one she was now transplanted into.Chapter 6 (9% in)
- There was a little awkwardness at first in their discourse on another subject.Chapter 13 (47% in)
There are no more uses of "discourse" in Persuasion.
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