conversation

keskustelu expression Expression and exchange of individual ideas through talking with other people; also, a set instance or occasion of such talking. (defdate)

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Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

Yt chaunsed thatt a whole yere they had their conversacion with the congregacion there, and taught moche people insomoche thatt the disciples off Antioche we the fyrst that wer called Christen.

There are many that take no heed what happeneth to others by bad conversation, and therefore overthrow themselves in the same manner through their own fault, not foreseeing dangers manifest.

(smallcaps)(..)quitted her Lover (smallcaps), for the tumultuous Conversation of (smallcaps).

The landlady therefore would by no means have admitted any conversation of a disreputable kind to pass under her roof.

Gone now are the "high-minded" style, the "adapted from literature" feel, the voice-over narration, and the abstract conversationing about ideas, values...

...he has breakfasted me, dined me, conversationed me, absolutely caressed me. He has been really most kind and paternal...

After all this conversationing, Scottie, my usual dance partner, was getting antsy and wanted to dance.