Crossword clues for circumvention
circumvention
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Circumvention \Cir`cum*ven"tion\, n. [L. circumventio.] The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.
A school in which he learns sly circumvention.
--Cowper.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Latin circumventionem (nominative circumventio), noun of action from past participle stem of circumvenire "to get around" (see circumvent).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of evading by go around (bypassing). 2 The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.
WordNet
n. the act of evading by going around
Usage examples of "circumvention".
Here are plots and circumventions, parties and factions, equal to those which are to be found in courts.
So great circumvention, and so great depreciation, in speaking of the gifts one has, seems to me to hide a little vanity under an apparent modesty, and craftily to try to make others believe in greater virtues than are imputed to us.
At every turn he had been frustrated--by Imshi Pasha: three years of underground circumvention, with a superficial approval and a mock support.
The nature of the circumvention does imply a degree of internal complicity, certainly knowledge of the security monitor procedures was compromised.
There's a message box in my memory, with all kinds of circumventions to make certain I couldn't detect it.
This minister Whose circumventions never circumvent, Whose coalitions fail to coalesce.
The broad, serpentine terrace uncoils it's slanting cordons with a multiplicity of curves and angles and patient reaches of circumvention, which give it the air of some wanton revelry of engineering genius.
Eve and back again within the compass of a cloud's passage across the moon or the circumvention of a rhododendron bush.
And on long warm summer evenings as hostess to more secular groups of friends, she enjoyed throwing open the french windows and leading them into the garden after dinner, walking barefoot across the lawn, laughing and talking and sometimes turning from vicar's wife to essential Eve and back again within the compass of a cloud's passage across the moon or the circumvention of a rhododendron bush.
But I think there's more artistic pleasure to be gained from the ingenious circumvention of a taboo than from what is called total permissiveness.
Andrev looked surprised for a moment, then shrugged and replied with a circumvention worthy of his father's highly flexible reading of the faradhi ethic.
A luxuriant silk lining showed at his kimono's cuffs and hem: the wealthy merchant's circumvention of the sumptuary laws that forbade commoners to wear silk.