Digress. Ive digressed a little to explain the situation so far so let me now recap. Examples may be found as far back as 1653 when Edmund Hall used but I digress in his A Scriptural Discourse of the Apostasie and the Antichrist.
Ive digressed a little to explain the situation so far so let me now recap. Its the sort of word you would use when you realize perhaps a bit too late that youve been rambling on for a while about something that had nothing to do with the original topic or question. The word digress has been around since the 16th century.
Ive digressed a little to explain the situation so far so let me now recap.
Verb If you digress you move away from the subject you are talking or writing about and talk or write about something different for a while. Depart from the principal line of argument plot study etc. To move away from the main subject you are writing or talking about and to write or talk about. But the dictionary says that digress a verb means to stray off of something to wander from a path or to turn aside etc.