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Circumvention   Listen
noun
Circumvention  n.  The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion. "A school in which he learns sly circumvention."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Circumvention" Quotes from Famous Books



... wild Westerners was something at once rustic and sanguinary. The refinements of art and civilization seemed effeminate, artificial, to these rude spirits, who laughed uproariously at one another, plotted dementedly in circumvention of each other's plans, and gloried in their defiance of both man and God. Deep in their hearts they cherished tenderness for woman, sympathy for the weak and the afflicted, and generosity indescribable. ...
— Mark Twain • Archibald Henderson



Words linked to "Circumvention" :   escape, dodging



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