redigress

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

re- +‎ digress

Verb[edit]

redigress (third-person singular simple present redigresses, present participle redigressing, simple past and past participle redigressed)

  1. To digress again, especially to digress from a digression.
    • 1980, Scottish Literary Journal: Supplement - Issues 12-16, page 137:
      lt preserves the structure and keeps the reader fascinated as the plot branches and digresses and redigresses, and comes together again
    • 1992, Big Beautiful Woman - Volume 14, page 10:
      The area held no telltale signs of Weiner Dog Attack (after her first look at Max, a friend said, "I guess someone told you to get a-long little doggie and you took them seriously," but I redigress).
    • 2001, Thomas P. Ehrenzeller, Infinity: A New Perspective on Man's Destiny in the Universe, →ISBN, page 92:
      To redigress (if there is such a thing), I remember when I was in...