What does descant mean?
Descant means A lengthy discourse on a subject..
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/ˈdɛskænt/ · noun
A lengthy discourse on a subject..
Upon that simplest of themes how magnificent a descant!
Involving some interesting, intellectual trips, she was descanting lightly to right and left.
[…] Samballat gaue his daughter Nicaſo to Manaſſes, the brother of Iaddus the High Prieſt, in the time of Darius the laſt Perſian Monarch. This Nehemia mentioneth, but deigneth not to name him, affirming that he chaſed him from him, of vvhich ſome deſcant vvhether it vvere by exile, or excommunication, or ſome other puniſhment.
[B]ut shun the establishment of a bachelor who has hung a pendulum between temptation and prudence till the age of———but of all subjects, age is the one on which it is most invidious to descant.
This is a surprise attack, and I'd no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. I am sure, Lord Stranleigh, that he has been descanting on the distraction of the woods and the camp, or perhaps the metropolitan dissipation of Philadelphia, […]
Use descant when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Descant means A lengthy discourse on a subject..
Common synonyms include warble, discant, yodel.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Upon that simplest of themes how magnificent a descant!
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