10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CIRCUMLOCUTORY»
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circumlocutory in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
circumlocutory and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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How to Sound Clever: Master the 600 English Words You ...
(adj.) = using many words when there is no need from the Latin circumlocutio,
from circum-: around, and locutio: speech e.g. A standard conversation with Fidel
Castro is reported to last hours because the Cuban leader is so circumlocutory ...
Hubert van den Bergh, 2010
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Garner's Modern American Usage
If the noun corresponding to circuitous is seldom used, so is the adjective
corresponding to circumlocution: circumlocutory. E.g.: “He's impatient with
compliments, circumlocutory in his answers and cheerfully forthcoming with
amusing stories ...
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A Compendious Grammar of the Current Corrupt Dialect of the ...
With a Vocabulary, English and Moors, Moors and English. With References
Between Words Resembling Each Other in Sound, and Different in Signification;
and Literal Translations of the Compounded Words and Circumlocutory
Expressions ...
George Hadley, Mohommed Fitrut, 1801
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Shakspeare Diversions: Second Series, from Dogberry to Hamlet
IL CIRCUMLOCUTORY AND CIRCUMSTANTIAL. Much Ado about Nothing, Act
iii., Sc. 5 ; Act v., Sc. 1. Hard work has Leonato, in one scene, and Don Pedro in a
later one, to bring Dogberry to the point, and to learn his meaning or master his ...
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Naskapi: The Savage Hunters of the Labrador Peninsula
a'tc mi" team (Moisie): "black food," circumlocutory name for the bear. t' : "bad luck
or bad hunt." \tmalyntorhyt' (Lake St. John): "making a good hunt" \anaya' 'pewut (
Michikamau) : "chicane, clown," term applied to the bear. lj<tTitautet"'tul^»: our ...
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Networks and Knowledge in Roget's Thesaurus
Expressed etc. exprimé rendu proverbial couched in periphrastic circumlocutory.
Comme on dit. There are 31 English words, with 18 directly translated and 17
added ones plus the noun phrase tournure gauloise etc. This means that the ...
Embarking on a shared family life after the events of The Sins of the Father, Harry, Emma, Sebastian and Jessica find their happiness challenged by Emma's brother's engagement to a fortune-seeker, Sebastian's hedonist pursuits and a grudge ...
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Matthew: Structure, Christology, Kingdom
On the other hand, Matthew intends that the reply be circumlocutory in
formulation because, although the High Priest has spoken the truth, he has not
done so with perception born of revelation, but in order to charge Jesus with
blasphemy ...
Jack Dean Kingsbury, 1989
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Neuropsychological Evaluation of the Older Adult: A ...
Another common type of error is a circumlocutory error, when the patient
describes the item in several words (e.g., describing a beaver as "an animal that
eats trees"). In cases of semantic or circumlocutory errors or when the examiner
believes ...
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On the Content and Object of Presentations: A Psychological ...
Let us hear what Marty has to say about this: "Inasmuch as presentations of the
inner form . . . merely facilitate the understanding, . . . one can compare them, not
inappropriately, with circumlocutory [umschreibende] definitions. These, too, do ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CIRCUMLOCUTORY»
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circumlocutory is used in the context of the following news items.
Lord Lexden: The extraordinary Lord Shaftesbury – a Conservative …
... establishment of a Royal Commission of Inquiry into Children's Employment in general, deploying the circumlocutory rhetoric that Victorians ... «Conservative Home, Jul 15»
What Emergency Meant For Big Business in India
... authoritarian mode of governance. Think only of L.K. Advani's recent, circumlocutory remarks. The tendency to look back at the Emergency in ... «NDTV, Jun 15»
Media Monkey: Richard Desmond, Simon Heffer, Chris Evans
With her straight-ahead style contrasting with his more circumlocutory approach, they may be Today's least compatible mixed doubles team; ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
Waterloo won, war over: the painting that captures the moment
And so the long and circumlocutory missive that announced the end of war may have been perplexing to many. The first half of the dispatch ... «The Conversation UK, Jun 15»
Niall Ferguson Fights Back Against Smear Campaign by Fact …
In my case, the FT 'complaints commissioner' turned out to be a lawyer and, as lawyers will, opted to write 16 circumlocutory pages and split the ... «New York Magazine, Jun 15»
Being British in the Big Apple
Brits incline towards a circumlocutory, self-deprecatory approach, building intimacy. This has its roots in a class-riven culture, one in which ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
California Court of Appeals awards attorneys' fees to defendant for …
Here, the court found objective speciousness by reasoning that Cypress' complaint was “evasive, equivocal, and circumlocutory” and that much ... «Lexology, Jun 15»
California Court Of Appeals Awards Attorneys' Fees To Defendant …
Here, the court found objective speciousness by reasoning that Cypress' complaint was "evasive, equivocal, and circumlocutory" and that much ... «Mondaq News Alerts, Jun 15»
PEMRA stirs
The federal information ministry, in a reversal of its circumlocutory attitude in the past of hiding behind the plea that the Pakistan Electronic ... «Daily Times, May 15»
Court Slams MoFo Client for 'Nonsensical' Trade Secrets Suit
Rushing called the company's complaint "a model of evasive, equivocal, and circumlocutory pleading." Much of the complaint, he wrote, ... «The Recorder, Apr 15»
