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单词 divagation
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divagationn.

/dʌɪvəˈɡeɪʃən/
Etymology: noun of action < Latin dīvagārī: see divagate v. and -tion suffix: compare French divagation (16– 17th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).
The action of divagating; a wandering or straying away or about: deviation; digression.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [noun] > avoiding an action or condition > turning aside from a course of action
divagation1560
swaya1586
deviation1603
deflection1605
recess1605
recession1614
exit1615
non-residence1615
exorbitancy1623
exorbitancea1628
exorbitationa1628
aberrancy1646
aberrance1661
variationa1662
departurea1694
resilience1838
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > discursiveness or digression
digressionc1374
adigression1483
divagation1560
discursion1561
digress1598
discursation1618
excursiveness1753
discursativeness1819
discursiveness1819
digressiveness1877
1560 J. Knox et al. Buke Discipline in J. Knox Wks. (1848) II. 240 This skipping and divagatioun frome place to place of the Scripture.
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity ii. i. xi. 272 That the phancy may make no divagation.
1855 Ess. Intuit. Mor. 149 The illogical divagations of their adherents.
1881 Sat. Rev. 1 Jan. 13 Her divagations from the proper purpose of her life will be forgotten.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters ii. ii. 78 With that vile lad to head them off on idle divagations.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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