Meanings
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adj
various; several (archaic or literary)
He had visited divers cities in the course of his long travels.
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Etymology
From Old French divers ('different, various'), from Latin diversus ('turned different ways, separate'), past participle of divertere ('to turn aside'), from dis- ('apart') + vertere ('to turn'). A doublet of diverse.
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