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circunloquio
Ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech.
circumlocution
periphrasis
circumvolution
ambage
stylistic device
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circumlocution
"
circumlocution
periphrasis
circumvolution
ambage
Examples for "
circumlocution
"
1
Pope dislikes a simple term and loves a
circumlocution
and an abstraction.
2
He defined the nature and crime of treason with elaboration and
circumlocution
.
3
The first is that it uses
circumlocution
rather than short straight speech.
4
So without
circumlocution
she went and offered to take the sinking child.
5
All your
circumlocution
and your fine words are simply an additional insult.
1
Why does the Evangelist not say, without that
periphrasis
,
'healed the sick'?
2
The provincial word emparamarse can be translated only by a very long
periphrasis
.
3
He had a cunning mastery of
periphrasis
,
and a telling command of adverbs.
4
He often expresses the commonest thoughts in a studied
periphrasis
.
5
This they contrived by the ready expedient of the
periphrasis
.
1
Never did a monarch hold so steadfastly to a deadly purpose, or proceed so languidly and with so much
circumvolution
to his goal.
2
Tell me, then, for you can, in what periphrasis of language, in what
circumvolution
of phrase, I shall envelope, yet not conceal, the plain story.
3
This "Ariadne's thread" easily follows all sinuosities, and adapts itself to all
circumvolutions
.
1
The doctor still answered per
ambages
,
ut mos oraculis.
2
There should be
ambages
in such a matter.
3
And the
ambages
should take time.
4
It is true, in doing this, I may perhaps be obliged to use some
AMBAGES
,
and ways of speech not common.
5
No "longæ
ambages
"
for him.
1
Flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, rotation,
circumduction
,
pronation, supination, and the lateral movements.
2
"Here it is: a 'telltale
circumduction
of his right leg.' That means he rolls it out slightly with each step."
telltale circumduction
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