v.
/
ˈdiːvɪeɪt/
diverge from an established course or from usual or accepted standards.
n.
&
adj.
/
ˈdiːvɪət/
old-fashioned term for
deviant.
Derivative
Etymology
C16 (as adj. in the sense ‘remote’): from late L. deviat-, deviare ‘turn out of the way’, from L. de- ‘away from’ + via ‘way’.
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