digression (going aside)
1digression — noun Date: 14th century 1. the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work 2. archaic a going aside • digressional adjective • digressionary adjective …
2digression — late 14c., from L. digressionem (nom. digressio) a going away, departing, noun of action from pp. stem of digredi to deviate, from dis apart, aside (see DIS (Cf. dis )) + gradi to step, go (see GRADE (Cf. grade)) …
3digression — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. deviation, diversion, divergence, excursus, departure, tangent, aside, wandering, divagation, rambling, straying, circumlocution, parenthesis, apostrophe, going off on a tangent; see also variation 1 . II (Roget s 3… …
4digression — digressional, digressionary, adj. /di gresh euhn, duy /, n. 1. the act of digressing. 2. a passage or section that deviates from the central theme in speech or writing. [1325 75; ME < AF < L digression (s. of digressio) a going away, aside, equiv …
5digression — n 1. maundering, descanting, being diffuse, being episodic, rhapsodizing, waxing long winded, circumlocution, going off on or at a tangent, beating around the bush; (all of writing or speaking) deviating, divagating, deflecting, diverging,… …
6parabasis — /peuh rab euh sis/, n., pl. parabases / seez /. (in ancient Greek drama) a choral ode addressed to the audience, esp. of comedy, and independent of the action of the play: usually following the agon and, in the earliest forms of comedy, serving… …
7Nicomachean Ethics — Part of a series on Aristotle …
8Finnegans Wake — infobox Book | name = Finnegans Wake title orig = translator = author = James Joyce cover artist = country = language = English series = genre = Sui generis publisher = Faber and Faber release date = 4 May 1939 media type = Print (Hardcover… …
9Don Juan (Byron) — Byron s Don Juan (Penguin Classics version) Don Juan (  /d …
