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Significados de circumvolution en inglés

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перифраз
portugués
perifrase
catalán
perífrasi
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circunloquio

Ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech.

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        Examples for "circumlocution"
        Examples for "circumlocution"
        1
        Pope dislikes a simple term and loves a circumlocution and an abstraction.
        Halleck's New English Literature
        2
        He defined the nature and crime of treason with elaboration and circumlocution.
        The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance
        3
        The first is that it uses circumlocution rather than short straight speech.
        On the Art of Writing / Lectures delivered in the University of ...
        4
        So without circumlocution she went and offered to take the sinking child.
        Mary Barton
        5
        All your circumlocution and your fine words are simply an additional insult.
        The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2)
        1
        Why does the Evangelist not say, without that periphrasis, 'healed the sick'?
        Expositions of Holy Scripture: Psalms
        2
        The provincial word emparamarse can be translated only by a very long periphrasis.
        Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
        3
        He had a cunning mastery of periphrasis, and a telling command of adverbs.
        Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel
        4
        He often expresses the commonest thoughts in a studied periphrasis.
        Lives of the English Poets / From Johnson to Kirke White, Design...
        5
        This they contrived by the ready expedient of the periphrasis.
        A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
        1
        Flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, rotation, circumduction, pronation, supination, and the lateral movements.
        The Legacy of Cain
        2
        "Here it is: a 'telltale circumduction of his right leg.' That means he rolls it out slightly with each step."
        Driving Heat
        1
        The doctor still answered per ambages, ut mos oraculis.
        It Is Never Too Late to Mend
        2
        There should be ambages in such a matter.
        The Belton Estate
        3
        And the ambages should take time.
        The Belton Estate
        4
        It is true, in doing this, I may perhaps be obliged to use some AMBAGES, and ways of speech not common.
        Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sce...
        5
        No "longæ ambages" for him.
        Castle Richmond
        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