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circumvention|sɜːkəmˈvɛnʃən|
[ad. L. circumventiōn-em, n. of action f. circumvenīre: see circumvent, and -tion.]
The action of circumventing; overreaching, outwitting, or getting the better of any one by craft or artifice.
1534More Passion Wks. 1280/1 Destroied, by the deceite and circumuencion of the false wilye diuel. 1603Adv. Don Sebastian in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 374 [He] discovered unto me certain plots and circumventions. 1767Sterne Tr. Shandy (1802) VIII. xxxiv. 192 Widow Wadman..has used every art and cicumvention of woman to outwit him. 1863Mrs. C. Clarke Shaks. Char. iii. 77 As if stratagem and circumvention were the ..staple of political commerce.
¶ ellipt. = the means of circumvention; circumvention ready, or in operation. (Johnson suggested ‘Prevention, preoccupation’.)
1607Shakes. Cor. i. ii. 6 What euer haue bin thought on in this State, That could be brought to bodily act, ere Rome Had circumuention? |