Meaning of offshooting | Babel Free

Definitions

An offshoot; a diversion or branching off.

Examples

“I must be shorter; I did not mean to turn off into the mere offshootings of my story, here and there; but the dreaminess I speak of leads me sometimes; and I, as impotent then, obey the dreamy prompting.”

“At the first offshooting of the English language from its present stem, its growth and development began at once to tend toward logical simplicity […]”

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