Definition of "descanting" [descanting]

• Present participle of descant. (verb)

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• "This book was written from a point of view decidedly different from that of most writers on Liberia, whose tone is that of "gentle melancholy," descanting "upon the country and the people to whom it belongs as with a pen dipped in sighs.""
• "“What a boy he is,” Paula said to Graham, as they listened to Dick descanting to all and sundry on the virtues of his new night camera."
• "They don't see the "necessity of rules for civil order" and spend their days in the faculty lounge, descanting on their dangerous ideas, "that laws are just tools for the powerful to control the powerless and that words can't have fixed meanings.""