A style that involves indirect ways of expressing things.
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Examples for "circumlocution"
Examples for "circumlocution"
1Pope dislikes a simple term and loves a circumlocution and an abstraction.
2He defined the nature and crime of treason with elaboration and circumlocution.
3The first is that it uses circumlocution rather than short straight speech.
4So without circumlocution she went and offered to take the sinking child.
5All your circumlocution and your fine words are simply an additional insult.
1Why does the Evangelist not say, without that periphrasis, 'healed the sick'?
2The provincial word emparamarse can be translated only by a very long periphrasis.
3He had a cunning mastery of periphrasis, and a telling command of adverbs.
4He often expresses the commonest thoughts in a studied periphrasis.
5This they contrived by the ready expedient of the periphrasis.
1The doctor still answered per ambages, ut mos oraculis.
2There should be ambages in such a matter.
3And the ambages should take time.
4It is true, in doing this, I may perhaps be obliged to use some AMBAGES, and ways of speech not common.
5No "longæ ambages" for him.
6But 'art is a second nature, and imitateth that dextrously and compendiously, which nature performs by ambages and length of time.'
7The American Minister in such matters was accustomed to fewer ambages than were common in the circles among which Mr. Glascock had lived.