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- noun Plural form of
discourse .
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Examples
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Science: The History of Attitudes to Sexuality, for example, Julia Leslie notes, "There were two main discourses about sexuality in early modern England, one religious, one medical" (83).
How to Do the History of Pornography: Romantic Sexuality and its Field of Vision 2006
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Perhaps the most important socioreligious dimension of these discourses is the emphasis on the family as an integral element of twelfth - and thirteenth-century Christian piety.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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When my daughter and coauthor Jenny and I were growing up as father and daughter, she referred to my discourses on life as the ‘Lectures.’
The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make Sean Covey 2006
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When my daughter and coauthor Jenny and I were growing up as father and daughter, she referred to my discourses on life as the ‘Lectures.’
The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make Sean Covey 2006
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In the classic marketing ploy of fiction from Defoe onwards, it claims a place in discourses of the famous: 'All the world has heard of Cornelius Agrippa.'
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These are similes occurring in discourses ascribed to the Buddha – e.g.,
Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909
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Ruskin discourses on this subject in his own inimitable way.
An Island Garden 1894
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: And also because the wisdom spoken amongst the perfect expands, to an extent greater than all other sayings, that which was told to men in short discourses, for there is nothing greater than this truth.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Mark 1225?-1274 1842
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The first part of the two Tragicall discourses, as they were sundrie times most stately shewed vpon
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The last of the series of the discourses was the most candid, and pointed most directly to the object at which they were all aiming; for the preacher reached the close of the attack upon the
Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison
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