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discursively

adv

Etymology

From discursive + -ly.

  1. derived from discursivus
  2. derived from discursus
  3. borrowed from discursif
  4. suffixed as discursively — “discursive + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a discursive manner.

    • There were certain things […] that pricked him to talk discursively and incautiously; but now he realized that he had only been talking like a character in a novel, and not a very good novel.
    • We are dealing in the Iliad with a commanding vision of man, articulate in every detail, not with a tale of adventure automatically or discursively carried forward.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA