Both Uses
digress
in
A Sketch of the Past
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- The strength of these pictures—but sight was always then so much mixed with sound that picture is not the right word—the strength anyhow of these impressions makes me again digress.†
digress = wander from a direct course
- This leads to a digression, which perhaps may explain a little of my own psychology; even of other people's.†
*digression = a wandering from a direct or straight course -- especially verbally
Definitions:
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(1)
(digress) wander from a direct or straight course -- typically verbally
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)