Both Uses of
circumlocution
in
Gulliver's Travels
- It put me to the pains of many circumlocutions, to give my master a right idea of what I spoke; for their language does not abound in variety of words, because their wants and passions are fewer than among us.†
Chpt 4
- I had made use of many circumlocutions in describing to him the nature of the several crimes for which most of our crew had been forced to fly their country.†
Chpt 4 *
Definition:
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(circumlocution) an unnecessarily wordy (or possibly evasive, or indirect) way of saying something