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excursus

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8 lettersPronunciation /ɛkˈskɝsəs/Part of speech nounSorted cerssuuxStarts with EEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a message that departs from the main subject

Word origin

Learned borrowing from Latin excursus (“excursion”). Doublet of excurse.

Used in a sentence

  • Here is what us scholars call an excursus. If you are an honest man the following page or two can be of no possible interest to you.
  • In his excursus on the Jewish people at the opening of the fifth book of his Histories [...], Tacitus was at a loss to uncover any deep cause for the war that broke out in 66.
  • Part III (Chapters 12 to 16) includes an excursus which leads us to the use of Esperanto outside the community of its speakers.

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