(social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after ).* Shakespeare Sure he that made us with such large discourse, / Looking before and after, gave us not / That capability and godlike reason / To rust in us unused.* South difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason.(countable) Any rational expression, reason.The preacher gave us a long discourse on duty. (countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.(uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.At first I could not make much sense of what I heard for the discourse of Louisa Eshton and Mary Ingram, who sat nearer to me, confused the fragmentary sentences that reached me at intervals. * 1847, , ( Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII Two or three of the gentlemen sat near him, and I caught at times scraps of their conversation across the room.(uncountable, archaic) Verbal exchange, conversation.
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