deviation

Definition

The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road.

Etymology

From Middle French deviation, from Medieval Latin deviatio. Morphologically deviate + -ion.

Example Sentences

• "The combination of Archie Jones’s working-class, Cockney accent, Samad’s Asian-English and Clara’s Creolized Caribbean English represent socio-linguistic deviations from Standard English as the centripetal forces of language undermining any notion of a homoglossic centre to the nation’s language and culture."
• "mankind’s deviation from divine will"
• ""A rough place, my last district; sixty navvies on the Springbank deviation works, let alone eighty of these dole bugs to attend to.""

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