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1
to give a formal often extended talk on a subject
- an English professor who loves to descant on his beloved Shakespeare
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descant
noun
variants:
also discant
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2
as in note, remark
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“Descant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/descant. Accessed 17 May. 2022.
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