Crossword-Solution: DIGRESSION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Digression | n. | The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject. |
| Digression | n. | A turning aside from the right path; transgression; offense. |
| Digression | n. | The elongation, or angular distance from the sun; -- said chiefly of the inferior planets. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “DIGRESSION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| wandering from the main path of a journey | 1 answer |
| a message that departs from the main subject | 1 answer |
| Divagation | 5 answers |
| apostrophe | 7 answers |
| Tangent | 7 answers |
| Sidetrack? | 14 answers |
| sideslip | 15 answers |
| pleonasm | 19 answers |
| egress | 20 answers |
| Afterthought | 22 answers |
| Parenthesis | 28 answers |
| excursus | 33 answers |
| expletive | 34 answers |
| Episode | 37 answers |
| Detour | 39 answers |
| deflection | 45 answers |
| Diversion | 46 answers |
| Swerve | 48 answers |
| Aside. | 55 answers |
| comment | 61 answers |
| Drift | 70 answers |
| Parting | 75 answers |
| Addition | 76 answers |
| ADVENTURE ___ | 84 answers |
| Exit | 87 answers |
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Sentences with DIGRESSION (5)
And, making a digression at this stage on the subject of light, I expounded at considerable length what the nature of that light must be which is found in the sun and the stars, and how thence in an instant of time it traverses the immense spaces of the heavens, and how from the planets and comets it is reflected towards the earth.
Maybe that's why our jobs seem to get tougher every day." Duncan snapped himself back from the mental digression.
Turning to one of his favourite passages--"A Consolatory Digression, Containing the Remedies of All Manner of Discontents"--he was happily lost to all ticking of the clock, retaining only such bodily consciousness as was needful to dump, fill, and relight his pipe from time to time.
This is all a digression, however, from the fact that I have been six months at home and am weary of it, and pleased at the new development of which I shall have to tell you.
These keepers of shanties were a peculiar race, and at the cost of a digression it may be interesting to explain how they managed to amass considerable sums of money in a land where travellers were few and far between.
Quotes with DIGRESSION (3)
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.
This is why, if I may be forgiven a digression, I believe it is time for the black race to forget about rhetoric and instead show what we are capable of doing. The testing will surely go on for the next generation and the next, but each time we meet the test, we'll climb another rung of the ladder until finally we arrive at parity, having earned our place rather than pleading or demanding that it be given to us.
Such ordeals always strike one with their strangeness, their digression from the normal flow of events, and often provoke a universal protest: "Why me?" Be sure that this is not a question but an outcry. The person who screams it has been instilled with an astonishing suspicion that he, in fact, has been the perfect subject for a very specific "weird," a tailor-made fate, and that a prior engagement, in all its weirdness, was fulfilled at the appointed time and place.
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Appears in: USA TODAY.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2020).