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circumlocution Meaning in Tamil ( circumlocution வார்த்தையின் தமிழ் அர்த்தம்)



Noun:

சுற்றி வளைத்துப் பேசும் பேச்சு,



circumlocution's Usage Examples:

Swift inoculated the Scriblerus Club with his own hatred of pedantry, cant and circumlocution.


His prose writings gained great reputation in their own day, and long afterwards, but are disfigured by apparent straining after effect, and by frequent puerility and circumlocution.


circumlocution used to avoid the use of " I " which might have seemed arrogant.


The style is wearisome and prolix, attaining to precision at the expense of circumlocution, and setting forth the smallest particulars with the same distinctness as the main features of the narrative.


(6) No marginal notes at all to be affixed, but only for the explanation of the Hebrew or Greek words which cannot, without some circumlocution, so briefly and fitly be expressed in the text.


9 The phrase Mal'akh Yahweh may have been originally a courtly circumlocution for the Divine King; but it readily became a means of avoiding crude anthropomorphism, and later on, when the angels were classified, the Mal'akh Yahweh came to mean an angel of distinguished rank.





Synonyms:

ambage, periphrasis, verbosity, verboseness,



Antonyms:

pithiness, laconism, expressive style, style, terseness,

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