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discursively

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12 lettersPart of speech adverbSorted cdeiilrssuvyStarts with DEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. in a rambling manner

Word origin

From discursive + -ly.

Used in a sentence

  • There were certain things […] that pricked him to talk discursively and incautiously; but now he realized that he had only been talking like a character in a novel, and not a very good novel.
  • We are dealing in the Iliad with a commanding vision of man, articulate in every detail, not with a tale of adventure automatically or discursively carried forward.
  • In that realm, which was discursively constructed and called the Orient, certain kinds of assertions could be made, all of them possessing the same powerful generality and cultural validity.

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