discourse

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  1. noun Verbal expression in speech or writing.
  2. noun Verbal exchange; conversation.
  3. noun A formal, lengthy discussion of a subject, either written or spoken.
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  • Publicly, the discourse is all about the dangers of "false market assumptions" and the now-infamous "financial engineering." —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • But the movie does take the time to reveal how, in McCullough's own words, "the level and range of their discourse were always above and beyond the ordinary." —  PopPolitics.com
  • Christophobes to pull out the Trump card in American discourse - anti Semitism - is a measure of how desperate they are-or how determined to repress Christmas. —  VDARE.com: Blog Articles
  • Your discourse is articulate, reasoned, independent, you answered to those who commented you and never I saw you pull rank (you could, you know, my formation is in physics and knows nothing of ethics). —  MercatorNet
  • This discourse is about dilemmas and how we can use the Bible in everyday life, boiling Christianity down to its very essence. —  AskMen.com - HOME PAGE
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sermon ·  conversation ·  speech ·  essay ·  narrative ·  poem ·  writing ·  debate ·  argument ·  lecture ·  inquiry ·  explanation

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discourse:   discourses
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  1. Middle English discours, process of reasoning, from Medieval Latin discursus, from Latin, a running about, from past participle of discurrere, to run about : dis-, apart; see dis- + currere, to run; see kers- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English discourse = D. G. discours = Danish Swedish diskurs, from Old French discours, French discours = Spanish Portuguese discurso = Italian discorso, discourse, from Latin discursus, a running to and fro, a running about, a pace, gait, Late Latin a discourse, conversation, Middle Latin also reasoning, the reasoning faculty, from discurrere, past participle discursus, run to and fro, run through or over, hasten, Late Latin go over a subject, speak at length of, discourse of (later Italian discorrere = Spanish discurrir = Portuguese discorrer = French discourir, discourse), from dis-, away, in different directions, + currere, run: see current, and cf. course, concourse. Hence discursive, etc.
  2. from discourse, n.
 

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