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Definition of the day : « divagation »
- noun digression
- In his finest passages, as in his most trivial, he is at the mercy of the will-o'-the-wisp of divagation.
- Extract from : « Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 » by George Saintsbury
- That ended the Russian divagation, and it had the effect of making the table-talk impersonal.
- Extract from : « A Romance in Transit » by Francis Lynde
- One would like to have Mr. Arnold's reply to this divagation on Don Quixote.
- Extract from : « Shelburne Essays, Third Series » by Paul Elmer More
- With such hints for divagation, let us resume our way down the river, henceforth navigable by barges and bridled by locks.
- Extract from : « Surrey » by A.R. Hope Moncrieff
- He had an unconquerable and sometimes very irritating habit of digression, of divagation, of aside.
- Extract from : « A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) » by George Saintsbury
- They are not very easy to select from, for their author's singular tendency to divagation affects them.
- Extract from : « A Letter Book » by George Saintsbury