Lexicographical Neighbors of Circuities
Literary usage of Circuities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ormond; or, The secret witness by Charles Brockden Brown (1811)
"Away with thiese impertinent circuities and scruples. I know your meaning.
Why should I pretend ignorance, and put you to the trouble of explanation ? ..."
2. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1907)
"Otherwise, the correspondence must involve circuities. If this be practised
promiscuously in both classes of cases, each party setting examples of ..."
3. Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century by Henry Osborn Taylor (1920)
"From Ferrara, by various circuities of route, with Strasbourg in his mind, Calvin
came to Geneva. The town had already cast out its objectionable bishops, ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1826)
"‘Compared with the formalities, the fictions, and the circuities of kgal assurances,
they' (viz, assurances which, pass equitable interests) ‘surprize us' ..."
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