circumventionn.
/səːkəmˈvɛnʃən/ 1. The action of circumventing; overreaching, outwitting, or getting the better of any one by craft or artifice.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > action or practice of deceiving
swikingc1000
blindfolding?c1225
deceivancec1330
trechettingc1330
jugglingc1380
beguilingc1400
deceivingc1400
fagec1400
delusionc1420
sophisticationc1450
circumvention1534
illudinga1547
cheateryc1555
cheatingc1555
crossing1592
tricking1595
wiling?a1600
circumventing1603
practice1622
cheat1641
deluding1645
underdealing1649
amusement1658
conveyancing1676
bubbling1700
jockeyshipa1763
overreachinga1774
jockeying1779
beguilement1805
gaggery1819
trickstering1821
Jewing1842
wool-pulling1843
rigging1846
hoodwinking1858
old soldierism1866
old soldiering1867
fiddling1884
gold-bricking1901
wangling1911
finagling1926
hyping1968
the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] > crafty dealing > circumventing or overreaching
circumvention1534
circumventing1603
outwitting1649
overreachinga1774
Jewing1842
outwittal1875
1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1280/1 Destroied, by the deceite and circumuencion of the false wilye diuel.
1603 Contin. Adv. Don Sebastian in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 374 [He] discovered unto me certain plots and circumventions.
1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. xxxiv. 143 Widow Wadman..has used every art and circumvention of woman to outwit him.
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters iii. 77 As if stratagem and circumvention were the ..staple of political commerce.
2. elliptical. = the means of circumvention; circumvention ready, or in operation. (Johnson suggested ‘Prevention, preoccupation’.)
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. ii. 6 What euer haue bin thought one in this State That could be brought to bodily act, ere Rome Had circumuention ? View more context for this quotation
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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