Crossword clues for divagation
divagation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Divagation \Di`va*ga"tion\, n. [L. divagari to wander about; di- = dis- + vagari to stroll about: cf. F. divagation. See Vagary.] A wandering about or going astray; digression.
Let us be set down at Queen's Crawley without further
divagation.
--Thackeray.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, noun of action from Latin divagatus, past participle of divagari (see divagate).
Wiktionary
n. straying off from a course or way
WordNet
n. a message that departs from the main subject [syn: digression, aside, excursus, parenthesis]
a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern); "a diversion from the main highway"; "a digression into irrelevant details"; "a deflection from his goal" [syn: diversion, deviation, digression, deflection, deflexion]
Usage examples of "divagation".
Considering from the nebular point of view the vast complexity and subtlety of the living worlds, I began to wonder whether the endless divagations of the worlds were really due so much to richness of being as to weakness of spiritual perception, so much to the immensely varied potentiality of their nature as to sheer lack of any intense controlling experience.
Each year shows more and more clearly that Marxism and Communism are divagations from the path of human progress and that the line of advance must follow a course more intricate and less flattering to the common impulses of our nature.