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divagations

divagations is the plural of divagation.

Meaning of divagation

Noun

divagation (countable and uncountable, plural divagations)

  1. Straying off from a course or way.
    • It was after the complete revelation that he understood the romantic innuendoes with which his childhood had been surrounded, and of which he had never caught the meaning; they having seemed but part and parcel of the habitual and promiscuous divagations of his too constructive companion. When it...1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.
  2. Incoherent or wandering speech and thought.

Questions about divagations

What is divagations the plural of?
Divagations is the plural of divagation.

Words near divagations in the dictionary

  1. divagate
  2. divagated
  3. divagates
  4. divagating
  5. divagation
  6. divagations
  7. divaish
  8. divaism
  9. Divakar
  10. divalence
  11. divalencies

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