different between tigress vs digress

English

Etymology

From French tigresse, corresponding to tiger +? -ess

Noun

tigress (plural tigresses, masculine tiger)

1. A female tiger; a she-tiger.

Translations

Anagrams

• Griests, Stigers, striges

English

Etymology

From Latin digressum, past participle of digredi.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: di?gress
• IPA^(key): /da?????s/, /d?????s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Verb

digress (third-person singular simple present digresses, present participle digressing, simple past and past participle digressed)

1. (intransitive) 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.

   • 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.
2. (intransitive) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second, Act 5 Scene 3

     Thy overflow of good converts to bad;
     And thy abundant goodness shall excuse
     This deadly blot in thy digressing son.

Usage notes

Often heard in the set phrase But I digress, where the word behaves as a stative verb, whereas it otherwise patterns as a dynamic verb.

Synonyms

• (turn from the course of argument): sidetrack

Related terms

• digression
• digressive
• excursive

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