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Meanings of divagation in English
A turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
Portuguese
parêntese Spanish
paréntesis Synonyms
Examples for "aside"
Examples for "aside"
1
She said technical issues aside, that's the focus she wanted to continue.
2
Cook noodles in water according to package directions; drain and set aside.
3
The far future aside, there are challenges for the new tech entrants.
4
How true strife caused personal problems to be set aside with alacrity.
5
Yet again the common good is swept aside to benefit the wealthy.
1
And the amounts given under Dorn were much lower and in parenthesis.
2
What is the distinction in use between the bracket and the parenthesis?
3
It is the casual self-evidence of the parenthesis that makes it work.
4
The words in parenthesis were, I believe, not heard by Dr. Johnson.
5
The skipper made this quiet parenthesis either to himself or to Caius.
1
Be not I, but they, blamed for any error, obscurity or omission in my brief excursus.
2
For his description is not an excursus, but the end and aim of the whole work.
3
Followed by a lengthy excursus on dead relatives, lice, husbands lost at sea, and various other topics.
4
After this unhappy excursus the Reviewer proceeds to offer a most unintelligent estimate of the Great Recueil.
5
The construction is almost as severe; and the movement is unbroken from beginning to end, without excursus or digression.
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.
2
After these mystic divagations, the writer had experienced a period of calm.
3
They watch keenly and with reprobation in Mr. Hearst's press our slightest divagations.
4
The Rajah had not been idle during the interval of dinner-givings and social divagations.
5
The precious Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, hob-a-nobbed with every Muse in her amazing divagations.
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Her brother lent himself with malicious good-humor to the divagations of her rather eccentric wanderings.
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And with this, according to the divagations of their temperaments and characters, the others strenuously concurred.
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Serious scholars mentioned below should be applauded for their good work, never blamed for my tawdry divagations.
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His divagations took place in the intervals.]
10
You must forgive me for being led away into divagations which seem to be irrelevant to the dramatic sequence.
11
In one of those brilliant divagations with which Mr. H. G. Wells is wont to enrich his novels he says:
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Gyges listened with astonishment to this discourse of Candaules, and sought to penetrate the hidden sense of these lyric divagations.
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Even if we turn out of our path sometimes, we don't like others to vacillate... conversions, divagations, are not sympathetic.
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The Icelander must tell his story in haste; the deeds of men are his care, not their divagations nor their psychologizings.
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There was really the touch of grace in my poor friend's divagations-thedisheartened dandy had so positively turned rhapsodist and seer.
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All That Follows convincingly charts the divagations of Lennie's mental life: often he is listening to jazz, or remembering past performances.
Frequent collocations
Translations for divagation
Catalan
Spanish
Divagation through the time