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indirection|ɪndɪˈrɛkʃən|
[f. indirect, after direction.]
1. Indirect movement or action; a devious or circuitous course to some end; round-about means or method. by indirection, by indirect means, indirectly.
1602Shakes. Ham. ii. i. 65 And thus doe we..By indirections finde directions out. 1634Ford P. Warbeck iii. iii, If king James, By any indirection, should perceive My coming near your court, I doubt the issue Of my employment. 1673S. C. Art of Complaisance 73 These were the effects of real merit and virtue, which still sheds a luster on the rest, and not of indirection. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits xiii. 211 Oxford also has its merits... Whether in course or by indirection,..education according to the English notion of it is arrived at. 1879J. Burroughs Locusts & W. Honey (1884) 100 The weather is..to be understood, not by rule, but by subtle signs and indirections. 1888Q. Rev. Oct. 407 As is always the case with good critics, Mr. Arnold worked more by indirection and suggestion than by sheer delivery of judgment.
b. In literal sense: An indirect or devious way.
1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. (1872) I. 16 Through some other indirections we at last found the Rue Bergère.
2. Want of straightforwardness in action; an act, or practice, which is not straightforward and honest; deceit; malpractice.
1595Shakes. John iii. i. 276 The better Act of purposes mistooke, Is to mistake again, though indirect, Yet indirection thereby growes direct, And falshood, falshood cures. 1601― Jul. C. iv. iii. 75 To wring From the hard hands of Peazants, their vile trash By any indirection. 1710Tatler No. 191 ⁋1 The Indirection and Artifice which is used among Men. 1834M. Edgeworth Helen (Rtldg.) 106 To no vile indirections will I stoop. 1895Rev. of Rev. Aug. 138 He hated diplomatic indirections, or, to speak bluntly, lying. |