"divagation" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:",
          "text": "It was after the complete revelation that he understood the romantic innuendoes with which his childhood had been surrounded, and of which he had never caught the meaning; they having seemed but part and parcel of the habitual and promiscuous divagations of his too constructive companion. When it came over him that, for years, she had made a fool of him, to himself and to others, he could have beaten her, for grief and shame […]",
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