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- (rhetoric) The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (rhetoric) The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To express by periphrase or circumlocution.
- (intransitive) To use circumlocution.
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