DESCANT in a Sentence

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He was willing to descant upon any topic of conversation, even when he knew very little about the subject under discussion.

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 Meanings and Examples of DESCANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
descant
 v.  discuss fully; talk at great length about something of one's interest
Classic Sentence:
1  Though rendered less connected by many and general interruptions and outbreakings, a translation of their language would have contained a regular descant, which, in substance, might have proved to possess a train of consecutive ideas.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
2  But I forbear descanting further, and rather leave the judicious reader to his own remarks and application.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER XII.
Example Sentence:
1  He was willing to descant upon any topic of conversation, even when he knew very little about the subject under discussion.