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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--circumbendibus This week's theme: 14-letter words, 14-letter definitions. circumbendibus (sur-kuhm-BEN-duh-buhs) noun Circumlocution. [From Latin circum- (around) + English bend + Latin -ibus.] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "There are times when [George] Steiner does the exact opposite, dressing up banalities in the most clotted, Latinate and circumbendibus waffle in order to make them appear profound." Christopher Hart; Speaking in Tongues; Sunday Times (London, UK); Jan 6, 2008. X-Bonus I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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