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n. ambiguousness, affairs that are conducted in a round about manner (Archaic)

Circumlocution is a figure of speech where the meaning of a word or phrase is indirectly expressed through several or many words. It may be used when defining a term, for example: "scissors" = "a thing you use to cut other things". Circumlocution is often helpful while learning a new language, when one does not know the word for a particular thing. In the constructed language Basic English this is used to decrease the size of the necessary vocabulary.
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Noun
1. (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action
(hypernym) way, path, way of life
(classification) archaism, archaicism

n. plainly, in an unembellished manner

n. circumlocutions, roundabout style; maze