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| rdfs:comment | roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"; "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic) ('en' language string) | 
| rdfs:label | ambagious ('en' language string) | 
| rdfs:label | circumlocutious ('en' language string) | 
| rdfs:label | circumlocutory ('en' language string) | 
| rdfs:label | periphrastic ('en' language string) | 
| lvont:label | lexvo:term/eng/ambagious | 
| lvont:label | lexvo:term/eng/circumlocutious | 
| lvont:label | lexvo:term/eng/circumlocutory | 
| lvont:label | lexvo:term/eng/periphrastic | 
| lvont:nearlySameAs | http://purl.org/vocabularies/princeton/wn30/synset-circumlocutious-adjectivesatellite-1 | 
| skos:note | This resource corresponds to the meaning of the gloss text. It shares its meaning with that of the synonym set rather than denoting the WordNet synset. ('en' language string) | 
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