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Definition of Circumlocutions
1. circumlocution [n] - See also: circumlocution
Lexicographical Neighbors of Circumlocutions
Literary usage of Circumlocutions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Greek Grammar of the New Testament by Georg Benedikt Winer, Moses Stuart, Edward Robinson (1825)
"Prepositions in circumlocutions. 1. Several of the prepositions with the nouns
which they govern, form circumlocutions for other parts of speech, viz. ..."
2. A Grammar of the Idioms of the Greek Language of the New Testament by Georg Benedikt Winer (1850)
"Use of the Prepositions for circumlocutions. 1. Where prepositions with nouns
serve for a circumlocution of adverbs or adjectives, the possibility of such a ..."
3. A Greek grammar to the New Testament, and to the common or Hellenic diction by William Trollope (1842)
"syntax of verbs сотр. with n«, 118 ла/4«, in circumlocutions, 216 T« «ir«, followed
by a gen., 78, 04». 3 т«х/а», 18 Т|Х«1/та(У, »ClV. ..."
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