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circumlocution
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circumlocution
[-lōko̅o̅′shən]
the subconscious or learned use of pantomime, nonverbal communication, or word substitution by a patient because a word is difficult to retrieve or has been forgotten. See also anomia.


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En ese sentido, es posible retomar las palabras de Gonzalez Navarro (1957: 184) y decir "sin ambages que la politica demografica del regimen de Diaz fracaso completamente: no consiguio disminuir notablemente la mortalidad, ni tampoco recibir una cuantiosa inmigracion, ni menos aprovechar en la agricultura a los pocos extranjeros venidos".
21) Given the context of his profound outrage at the papacy as an ungodly foreign force polluting the spiritual development of Christendom, Foxe is found, unsurprisingly, to insist that in the doings of the Inquisition 'all is done in hugger-mugger, & in close corners, by ambages, by couert waies, and secret counselles.
It is worth noting that Apuleius's word ambages was the Latin word most often used for the windings and blind alleys of labyrinths.
 
 
 
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