What is "circumlocutions"

Usage examples of "circumlocutions".

Tolkien himself provided, introducing unattested idioms or long circumlocutions where necessary to work around gaps in the Tolkien-made vocabulary?

Often and often she felt that she could have leaped out towards the person talking to her, that she could have cried to him to put away his circumlocutions, his forms and his trivialities, and to let her see and feel what he really was.

Quenya, unlike English, does have a true perfect tense a unitary form of the verb that expresses this meaning, without circumlocutions and extra verbs.

In this as in other matters, people who want to write in Quenya face a difficult choice: Should we try to make the language work using solely the words Tolkien himself provided, introducing unattested idioms or long circumlocutions where necessary to work around gaps in the Tolkien-made vocabulary?

The trick of writing dialogue is to make it look natural, but without all the hesitations and circumlocutions and other wasted words that each of us uses in our everyday speech.

Yet the more he studied it with its magistrates' court circumlocutions, the more interested he was by ITS it.