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excursus

PRONUNCIATION:

MEANING:

noun:

1. A detailed discussion about a particular point, especially when added as an appendix.

2. A digression.

ETYMOLOGY:

concur, cark, From Latin excurrere (to run out), from ex- (out) + currere (to run). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kers- (to run), which also gave us car, career, carpenter, occur, discharge, caricature, au courant discursive , and succor . Earliest documented use: 1803.

USAGE:



Maggie Gee; Gannibal; New Statesman (London, UK); Aug 8, 2005.



See more usage examples of “Pushkin’s translator and editor Vladimir Nabokov included a 50-page excursus on the current state of knowledge about ‘Abram Gannibal’.”Maggie Gee; Gannibal;(London, UK); Aug 8, 2005.See more usage examples of excursus in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary

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