Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by circumlocution; circuitous or indirect in language; periphrastic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to, or consisting of, circumlocutions; periphrastic; circuitous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to
circumlocution :circumlocutionary .
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Examples
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It was in vain that her mother had explained with many circumlocutional phrases, that the fitness in this respect should be accommodated rather to the plebeian husband than to the noble parent.
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I answered briskly, for there was no time to be circumlocutional.
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Read together with my matter-of-fact statements, Liszt's hyperbolical and circumlocutional poetic prose will not be misunderstood by the reader.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888
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I answered briskly, for there was no time to be circumlocutional.
Gala-days Gail Hamilton 1864
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It was in vain that her mother had explained with many circumlocutional phrases, that the fitness in this respect should be accommodated rather to the plebeian husband than to the noble parent.
The Small House at Allington Anthony Trollope 1848
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It is as certain as that every inventor of anything designed for the public good, and offered to the English Government, becomes _ipso facto_ a criminal, to have his heart broken on the circumlocutional wheel.
The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2 (of 3), 1857-1870 Charles Dickens 1841
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