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Meanings of divagation in English

Portuguese
digressão
Catalan
desviament
Spanish
desviación

A turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)

        digressão
        Portuguese
        parêntese
        Spanish
        paréntesis

        A message that departs from the main subject.

              parêntese
              Usage of divagation in English
              1
              Let us be set down at Queen's Crawley without further divagation, and see how Miss Rebecca Sharp speeds there.
              Vanity Fair
              2
              After these mystic divagations, the writer had experienced a period of calm.
              Against the Grain
              3
              They watch keenly and with reprobation in Mr. Hearst's press our slightest divagations.
              Nonsenseorship
              4
              The Rajah had not been idle during the interval of dinner-givings and social divagations.
              A Fool for Love
              5
              The precious Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, hob-a-nobbed with every Muse in her amazing divagations.
              Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
              6
              Her brother lent himself with malicious good-humor to the divagations of her rather eccentric wanderings.
              The Ball at Sceaux
              7
              And with this, according to the divagations of their temperaments and characters, the others strenuously concurred.
              Angel Island
              8
              Serious scholars mentioned below should be applauded for their good work, never blamed for my tawdry divagations.
              Quicksilver
              9
              His divagations took place in the intervals.]
              England under the Tudors
              10
              You must forgive me for being led away into divagations which seem to be irrelevant to the dramatic sequence.
              The Red Planet
              11
              In one of those brilliant divagations with which Mr. H. G. Wells is wont to enrich his novels he says:
              The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social R...
              12
              Gyges listened with astonishment to this discourse of Candaules, and sought to penetrate the hidden sense of these lyric divagations.
              King Candaules
              13
              Even if we turn out of our path sometimes, we don't like others to vacillate... conversions, divagations, are not sympathetic.
              Sister Teresa
              14
              The Icelander must tell his story in haste; the deeds of men are his care, not their divagations nor their psychologizings.
              The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature
              15
              There was really the touch of grace in my poor friend's divagations-thedisheartened dandy had so positively turned rhapsodist and seer.
              A Passionate Pilgrim
              16
              All That Follows convincingly charts the divagations of Lennie's mental life: often he is listening to jazz, or remembering past performances.
              The Guardian
              Frequent collocations
              Translations for divagation
              Divagation through the time