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Divagation

noun
1.
A message that departs from the main subject.  Synonyms: aside, digression, excursus, parenthesis.
2.
A turning aside (of your course or attention or concern).  Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, diversion.  "A digression into irrelevant details" , "A deflection from his goal"






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"Divagation" Quotes from Famous Books



... There was a choice of ways. The great road from Wanmouth to High March skirted Marbery Down (where she had watched the stars and heard the sheep-bells many a still night), and then ran east by the forest edge to Worple. It only took in Worple by a wide divagation; after that it curved back to the forest, ran fairly clean to Market Basing, thence over ridges and coombs, but climbing mostly, it fetched up at High March. It was a military road. Well, she might ...
— The Forest Lovers • Maurice Hewlett

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— The Century Vocabulary Builder • Creever & Bachelor



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