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Definitions

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  • noun The quality or state of being digressive.

Etymologies

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digressive +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • I attribute this dubious behavior to reading the blog work of one anapestic, whose digressiveness charming is pretty much boundless, allowing me to mentally brush off my own as minor league.

    Cake Lindy 2009

  • I attribute this dubious behavior to reading the blog work of one anapestic, whose digressiveness charming is pretty much boundless, allowing me to mentally brush off my own as minor league.

    Great Plain Lindy 2008

  • I attribute this dubious behavior to reading the blog work of one anapestic, whose digressiveness charming is pretty much boundless, allowing me to mentally brush off my own as minor league.

    Tea and Lindy 2008

  • "Portrait of Dante," "Washers of the Shroud," "Under the Old Elm" (with its noble tribute to Washington) and "Stanzas on Freedom," It is a pity that such poems, all of which contain memorable lines, should be kept from the wide audience they deserve, and largely because of the author's digressiveness.

    Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909

  • We write, therefore, with correspondent carelessness or digressiveness, upon incidents that, in passing, have merely amused us — quite prepared to find that they are not so amusing (at second-hand) to others.

    Fun-jottings, or, Laughs I have taken a pen to 1853

  • Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy is a novel of voluptuous digressiveness, scornful of the straight narrative lines it keeps promising to adopt.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy is a novel of voluptuous digressiveness, scornful of the straight narrative lines it keeps promising to adopt.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • The tiny animation is just one example of the playful digressiveness of this book.

    Kent's Bike Blog 2009

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