Definitionn. a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
Last update: July 9, 2015
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It was a modest circumlocution used to avoid the use of " I " which might have seemed arrogant. [noun]
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9 The phrase Mal'akh Yahweh may have been originally a courtly circumlocution for the Divine King; but it readily became a means of avoiding crude anthropomorphism, and later on, when the angels were classified, the Mal'akh Yahweh came to mean an angel of distinguished rank. [noun]
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In every-day speech we are obliged to distinguish by elaborate circumlocution between a man's place of residence and that larger and truer life,--his sphere of sympathies. [noun]
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Losberne, who appeared desirous of gaining time, recounted them at great length, and with much circumlocution. [noun]
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9 The phrase Mal'akh Yahweh may have been originally a courtly circumlocution for the Divine King; but it readily became a means of avoiding crude anthropomorphism, and later on, when the angels were classified, the Mal'akh Yahweh came to mean an angel of distinguished rank. [Please select]
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--"that I'm afraid I say what comes into my mind without circumlocution."' [Please select]
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"Since you command me to avoid circumlocution, I shall obey you to the letter." [Please select]
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The circumlocution of the south-sea islander was a perennial mystery to him. [Please select]
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Seekers after knowledge are unpopular even in organisations so far removed from the Circumlocution Office as the French _Ministere de la Guerre_. [Please select]
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