Offshooting

I must be shorter; I did not mean to turn off into the mere offshootings of my story, here and there; but the dreaminess I speak of leads me sometimes; and I, as impotent then, obey the dreamy prompting.

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At the first offshooting of the English language from its present stem, its growth and development began at once to tend toward logical simplicity […]

Source: wiktionary