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excursus
noun as in digression
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This has been a long excursus, and we must get back to our jaunt on the plain.
But such a retort involves just the dialectic excursus which I am here anxious to avoid.
But the account suggests another and independent question with respect to which I shall make an excursus.
This is not to say, of course, that the excursus in the second stage has been a loss and a defect.
But call it a note or 'excursus,' which is the scholarlike name for notes a little longer than usual, and all will be made right.
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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to excursus, such as: aside, departure, detour, deviation, divagation, and divergence.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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