Экскурс
English translation: excursus
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|  Selected response from: Susan Welsh United States Local time: 20:39 | ||||||
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| 4 +1 | excursus |
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| 5 | excursus, digression |
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| 3 | digression |
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| 3 | parenthetical note, side observation |
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Answers
29 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1excursus Explanation: Since you haven't given the actual text, it's hard to say what would be best. But "excursus" is a perfectly good English word. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/excursus?s=t |
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digression Explanation: an act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought: the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/digression |
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15 mins confidence:
parenthetical note, side observation Explanation: But, you haven't given enough context to be sure what would work best. Where do you want to use this term? Is someone describing what an author has done in a particular text - as in "He adds a side observation that..." or "He adds a parenthetical note to say that..."? Is the observation literally in parentheses? Is it in a footnote? In those cases, "author's note" or "parenthetical note" might do. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 hrs (2019-01-15 22:41:52 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Yes, but you still haven't said where he uses the word. Is it that directly in the text there comes a paragraph, whether in parentheses or not, that is labelled "экскурс"? Or, is your context separate from the book - a letter or press release or discussion in which the author says, "I have often inserted an 'экскурс' between chapters"? |
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1 day 29 mins confidence:
excursus, digression Explanation: Define excursus. excursus synonyms, excursus pronunciation, excursus translation, English dictionary definition of excursus. n. pl. ex·cur·sus·es 1. A lengthy, appended exposition of a topic or point. 2. A digression. n , pl -suses or -sus an incidental digression from the main... This is the same as others, just a verification. |
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Reference comments
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| Reference: Excursus Reference information: a detailed discussion of a particular point in a book, usually in an appendix. -Excurses explanation irrelevant to the main subject -Excurses a detailed discussion or explanation of a subject, which is separate from the main subject that is being written or talked about: https://literaryterms.net/when-and-how-to-avoid-an-excursus/ https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/excursus |
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