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Definition of Circuitousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Circuitousness
Literary usage of Circuitousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The River of Golden Sand: The Narrative of a Journey Through China and by William John Gill, Henry Yule (1880)
"... Pass—' Straw-S«ndal Flat'—Ching-Chi-Hsien—Divergence of Road to Yiin-Nan by
Ning-Yuen—Circuitousness of our Route—Pan-Chiu- Ngai—The Insect Tree and the ..."
2. The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1900)
"... moral apophthegms; but there is a circumlocution, a reflex character, and
circuitousness in the thought, which prevents it from rising above mediocrity. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Thomas Jodrell Phillips, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham (1849)
"... his right in an Ecclesiastical Court; and that the circuitousness of the course
suggested on the other side was a sufficient objection to its adoption. ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"... Caversham (to resume my original place in the stern), where the Kennet joins
its waters to the river which winds in pleasant circuitousness to Sonning. ..."
5. The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Sibree (1899)
"... moral apophthegms; but there is a circumlocution, a reflex character, and
circuitousness in the thought, which prevents it from rising above mediocrity. ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1847)
"... such as those in which the ascending pulmonary trunk is obliterated or absent,
the cyanosis appears to be due less to the circuitousness of the course ..."
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