Both Uses of
discourse
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Tom counted the pages of the sermon; after church he always knew how many pages there had been, but he seldom knew anything else about the discourse.†
Chpt 5 *
- The discourse was resumed presently, but it went lame and halting, all possibility of impressiveness being at an end; for even the gravest sentiments were constantly being received with a smothered burst of unholy mirth, under cover of some remote pew-back, as if the poor parson had said a rarely facetious thing.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(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