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noun

Circumvolution n.

The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled.

A thing rolled round another.

A roundabout procedure; a circumlocution. "He had neither time nor temper for sentimental circumvolutions."

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Etymology of 'Circumvolution'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Circumvolution" Quotes from Famous Books

... to concentrate at that spot, Dumouriez trusted to assemble a powerful force in the rear of the south-west extremity of the Argonne, while, with the twenty-five thousand men under his immediate command, he held the enemy at bay before the passes, or forced him to a long circumvolution round one extremity of the forest ridge, during which, favourable opportunities of assailing his flank were almost certain to occur. Dumouriez fortified the principal defiles, and boasted of the Thermopylae which he had found for the invaders; but the simile was nearly rendered ...

— The Fifteen Decisive Battles of The World From Marathon to Waterloo • Sir Edward Creasy, M.A.

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