digressions

[dih-gresh-uhn, dahy-]

di·gres·sion

[dih-gresh-uhn, dahy-]
noun
1.
the act of digressing.
2.
a passage or section that deviates from the central theme in speech or writing.

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English < Anglo-French < Latin dīgressiōn- (stem of dīgressiō) a going away, aside, equivalent to dīgress(us) (see digress) + -iōn- -ion

di·gres·sion·al, di·gres·sion·ar·y, adjective


1, 2. deviation, divergence.

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Digressions is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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