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单词 roundaboutedly
释义

roundaboutedlyadv.

Brit. /ˈraʊndəbaʊtᵻdli/, U.S. /ˈraʊndəˌbaʊdᵻdli/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: roundabout adj., -ed suffix2, -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < roundabout adj. + -ed suffix2 + -ly suffix2. Compare earlier roundaboutly adv., round about adv.
Now rare.
= roundaboutly adv.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adverb] > periphrastically
periphrastically?c1622
roundaboutly1851
roundaboutedly1868
1868 W. Young Mathieu Ropars 186 Which brings me thus roundaboutedly to my main point.
1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood ix. 56 What..was euphuistically, not to say round-aboutedly, denominated ‘the apartment allotted to study’.
1916 Bakers Rev. May 94/2 Tis over a score years since visiting the Utah capital—roundaboutedly en-route to Mexico.
2007 A. S. Korkotsides Consumer Capitalism 122 Commodities..are manufactured through more capital-intensive techniques, allowing more human time-space to be roundaboutedly put into their making.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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