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descant

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈdɛskænt/Part of speech verb, nounSorted acdenstStarts with DEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. talk at great length about something of one's interest

Word origin

From Anglo-Norman descaunt, from Medieval Latin discantus. Doublet of discant.

Used in a sentence

  • Upon that simplest of themes how magnificent a descant!
  • [B]ut shun the establishment of a bachelor who has hung a pendulum between temptation and prudence till the age of———but of all subjects, age is the one on which it is most invidious to descant.
  • Involving some interesting, intellectual trips, she was descanting lightly to right and left.

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