Digress vs Err - What's the difference?
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To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
* Holland
* John Locke
* {{quote-song
, year = 1959
, title = In Old Mexico
, composer = (Tom Lehrer)
, passage = For I hadn't had so much fun since the day / my brother's dog Rover / got run over. / (Rover was killed by a Pontiac. And it was done with such grace and artistry that the witnesses awarded the driver both ears and the tail – but I digress .)
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To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
* Shakespeare
To make a mistake.
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To sin.
(archaic) to stray.
Digress is a related term of err.
In lang=en terms the difference between digress and err
is that digress is to turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend while err is to sin.As verbs the difference between digress and err
is that digress is to step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking while err is to make a mistake.digress
English
Verb
(es)- Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude.
- In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term.
- Thy abundant goodness shall excuse / This deadly blot on thy digressing son.
Synonyms
* (turn from the course of argument) sidetrackerr
English
Verb
(en verb)- Artificial tests, then, can hardly err on the side of supplying too many opportunities for one bird to see another perform the act which is the model.
