discourse
noun
communication of thought by words; talk; conversation.
are discoursing
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present progressiveof discourse.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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At debutante balls and bar mitzvahs, on campuses and at country-club dances, Dixieland bands are discoursing anew on an old theme that Eddie Condon kept alive.
From Time Magazine Archive
You will always find the Divine, the Lawyer, the Mathematician, the Astrologer, the Chymist, the Mechanick, &c. reserving to themselves the Merit of their particular Sciences when they are discoursing of the Arts in general.
From An Essay on Criticism by John Oldmixon
You suppose at first that they are discoursing of tallow candles, though you cannot imagine by what impertinence they address you, that are no tallow-chandler, upon such painful subjects.
From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
My sweetest Eugenie," I cried, "what is all this about which you are discoursing?
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 by Edgar Allan Poe
Ask yourself whether the wretched creatures of whom we are discoursing are not abandoned to their fate without the highest attempt to rescue them from it?
From Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society by Henry Morley
