divagation

• The rock ledges, among which we were clambering, were in many places fearful spots enough—places where a stumble or a divagation of the foot but six or eight inches from the narrow path would have precipitated the blunderer to assured and inevitable destruction. —  What I Remember, Volume 2
• I had never heard of 'divagation' until a couple of days ago, when I came across it in Alan Bennett's 'The Uncommon Reader' (part of the Trappist's holiday reading material). —  open source theology - Comments
• Earlier in this story Peter Wilkinson stepped briefly out of the narrative stream to note an uncanny coincidence converging on the word "divagation," an infrequently used but perfectly legitimate element of the English language. —  open source theology - Comments
• I don't see where Grecian urns come into all this, but let's not open up another divagation or diegesis. john doyle on 16 August, 2008 - 15: 23. —  open source theology - Comments
• I proven every threesome and they every seemed to be pretty such the aforementioned divagation from the esthetical differences. —  Planet Malaysia

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