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Cir****locution (also
called cir****duction, cir****volution, periphrasis, kenning,[dubious – discuss] or ambage[citation needed]) is the use of an unnecessarily...
- the
British government, in this
novel in the form of the
fictional "
Cir****locution Office". ****ens also
satirises the
stratification of
society that results...
- (Old
English kenning [cʰɛnːiŋɡ],
Modern Icelandic [cʰɛnːiŋk]) is a
cir****locution, an
ambiguous or
roundabout figure of speech, used
instead of an ordinary...
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treating anomic aphasia include cir****locution-induced
naming therapy (CIN),
wherein the
patient uses
cir****locution to ****ist with his or her naming...
- Periphrasis, or
cir****locution, is one of the most common: to "speak around" a
given word,
implying it
without saying it. Over time,
cir****locutions become recognized...
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intentional (although
intent usually is connoted), and is
accomplished with
cir****locution (talking
around the subject), the use of
jargon (technical language...
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speech that
contains real
words but
lacks any
substantial meaning.
Cir****locution:
talking around the
target word. E.g. "uhhh it's white... it's flat...
- the lack of self-correction" that the
patient may exhibit, and
their cir****locution (the
ability to talk
around missing words) we may
conclude that they...
- Jews on the council,
which is unobjectionable, the
substitution of a
cir****locution like
Jewish people or
persons of
Jewish background may in
itself cause...
- Look up
kenning in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Kenning is a
cir****locution used
instead of an
ordinary noun in Old
Norse and
later Icelandic poetry...
