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Significados de circumvolution en inglés

ruso
перифраз
portugués
perifrase
catalán
perífrasi
español
circunloquio

Ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech.

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        circunloquio
        Uso de circumvolution en inglés
        1
        Never did a monarch hold so steadfastly to a deadly purpose, or proceed so languidly and with so much circumvolution to his goal.
        The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 13: 1567, part II
        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.
        The Letters of Robert Burns
        3
        This "Ariadne's thread" easily follows all sinuosities, and adapts itself to all circumvolutions.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885
        Colocaciones frecuentes
        Translations for circumvolution
        catalán
        perífrasi
        Circumvolution a través del tiempo