单词 | ambagiosity |
释义 | ambagiosityn. literary. Indirectness of language or writing; circumlocution; (also) verbosity.In quot. 1912 humorous, as an example of an obscure, literary word. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > indirect action or process > [noun] circumquaque1546 circumduction1602 circumambulation1606 circuitya1626 indirectness1628 side wind1648 circumbendibus1681 ambagiosity1819 circumambulating1837 ambagiousness1867 circuitousness1869 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > periphrasis or circumlocution circumlocution?1518 ambage1532 periphrasis1533 circuition1542 circuit1552 notation1555 compassing1580 periphrase1589 ambush1601 encompassment1604 circumambulation1606 circling1623 perambulationa1652 roundaboutness1810 roundaboutation1812 ambagiosity1819 circumambulating1837 peripherization1926 1819 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) III. 419 Without any..ambagiosity, circumlocution, or needless, superfluous and unnecessary roundabout forms of speech. 1912 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Feb. 322 [Purporting to be Robert Browning, discussing his poem Sordello.] If that has n't got Henry James and the Sherman Law skinned ninety-two ways at once in the line of periphrastic ambagiosity and nubiferous obfuscation, I'll go in for vitrified diaphaneity from this time on. 1955 E. Jones Sigmund Freud II. xv. 401 The fluency, however, never became ambagiosity; on the contrary, the ease and grace of his Viennese style are equalled only by the conciseness of expression. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1819 |
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