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/dɪvˈərdʒ/ Listen

verb

Diverge v. i. (past & past part. diverged; pres. part. diverging)

To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.

To differ from a typical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Diverge" Quotes from Famous Books

... used as a "creative power." I want to know whether there is a right and wrong in the case, apart from every thing men call taste. Whether, whenever a work of art passes from suggestion to imitation, some liberty must not be given at the lines whence the rays are supposed to diverge to the two eyes from two different surfaces. Every advance in art and science removes something from the realms of opinion, and this appears to be a question on which science must some ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850 • Various

... know, can read tracks as readily as you read the paper. These look much alike, but we will follow them up and see if any diverge or ...

— The Boy Scouts Patrol • Ralph Victor

... But this upward roll is not an uncomplicated movement. There takes place at the same time a relaxation of binocular convergence, which in sleep may be replaced by a slight divergence. This tendency of the axes of vision to diverge as the eyes are raised is undoubtedly connected biologically with the distribution of distances in the higher and lower parts of the field of vision, of which mention has already been made. Its persistence is taken advantage of in the artificial device of assisting the process ...

— Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 • Various

... gentleman, "I will consent for this year, and this year only. I have been churchwarden of this parish for between forty and fifty years, and we have always given the harvest festival collection to the hospital, and although under these exceptional circumstances it may possibly be desirable to diverge from that custom, I cannot and will not consent to such a thing in a permanent way. So I shall write to the secretary and explain the matter, and tell him that next year and in the future generally the collection will be devoted ...

— Colonel Quaritch, V.C. - A Tale of Country Life • H. Rider Haggard

... of the impassioned were discharged at the poor English: a customary volley in most places where they intrude after quitting their shores, if they diverge from the avenue of hotel-keepers and waiters: but Clotilde pointed out to him that her English friend was not showing coldness in devoting ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

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