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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

divagari

to wander about;

di-

dis-

vagari

to stroll about: cf. F.

divagation

. See

A wandering about or going astray; digression.

Let us be set down at Queen’s Crawley without further

divagation

Thackeray.

divagation ‎(plural divagations)

straying off from a course or way
- 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima.
  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 came over him that, for years, she had made a fool of him, to himself and to others, he could have beaten her, for grief and shame....

divagation f ‎(plural divagations)