discursively
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.60 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a discursive manner.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "In that realm, which was discursively constructed and called the Orient, certain kinds of assertions could be made, all of them possessing the same powerful generality and cultural validity."
Etymology
Etymology tree English discursive Middle English -ly English -ly English discursively From discursive + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more discursively (comparative)
most discursively (superlative)