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Meanings of ambage in inglês

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A style that involves indirect ways of expressing things.

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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
        Usage of ambage in inglês
        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
        6
        But 'art is a second nature, and imitateth that dextrously and compendiously, which nature performs by ambages and length of time.'
        The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
        7
        The American Minister in such matters was accustomed to fewer ambages than were common in the circles among which Mr. Glascock had lived.
        He Knew He Was Right
        Translations for ambage
        espanhol
        perífrasis