discursively
adverb
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adv
Etymology: Etymology tree English discursive Middle English -ly English -ly English discursively From discursive + -ly.
- In a discursive manner.
“If then I seem to step somewhat too discursively from point to point of my topic, let me suggest that I do so in the hope of thus the better keeping unbroken that chain of graduated impression by which alone the intellect of Man can expect to encompass the grandeurs of which I speak, and, in their majestic totality, to comprehend them.”
“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.”