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Meanings of ambage in English
Catalan
perífrasi Spanish
perífrasis Synonyms
Examples for "circumlocution"
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.
Usage of ambage in English
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.
6
But 'art is a second nature, and imitateth that dextrously and compendiously, which nature performs by ambages and length of time.'
7
The American Minister in such matters was accustomed to fewer ambages than were common in the circles among which Mr. Glascock had lived.