offshooting
English
Noun
offshooting (plural offshootings)
- An offshoot; a diversion or branching off.
- 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
- 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.
- 1869, William Conant Church, The Galaxy (volume 7, page 103)
- At the first offshooting of the English language from its present stem, its growth and development began at once to tend toward logical simplicity […]
- 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities
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