Both Uses
discourse
in
Anne Of Green Gables
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- When I tell you to do a thing I want you to obey me at once and not stand stock-still and discourse about it.†
p. 54.7 *
- And you needn't stop to discourse with sympathetic listeners on your way, either.†
p. 88.3
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)