Definition of Circuitousness

1. Noun. The state of being circuitous ¹

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Definition of Circuitousness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Circuitousness

circuit courts
circuit race
circuit rider
circuit slugger
circuit training
circuital
circuited
circuiter
circuiters
circuities
circuiting
circuition
circuitions
circuitous
circuitously
circuitousness (current term)
circuitries
circuitry
circuits
circuity
circulable
circulant
circulants
circular-knit
circular DNA
circular amputation
circular anastomosis
circular arc
circular arcs

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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