roundaboutness love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Circuitousness of course or manner; the quality of being roundabout or tortuous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.

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  • noun The quality of being roundabout or circuitous.

Etymologies

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roundabout +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • The characteristic of "roundaboutness" is not, however, confined to

    Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902

  • "roundaboutness," it seems to me that "nominality" is due to the nature of the old social order.

    Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902

  • Hitching the blanket more firmly into place, laying a hand on his wide shoulder which was as disconcertingly warm, smooth-skinned, and heavily muscled as his arm to steady herself, she gritted her teeth and put the flame to his flesh with no more roundaboutness.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • Hitching the blanket more firmly into place, laying a hand on his wide shoulder which was as disconcertingly warm, smooth-skinned, and heavily muscled as his arm to steady herself, she gritted her teeth and put the flame to his flesh with no more roundaboutness.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • Mises, with his pure time preference theory, went beyond Böhm-Bawerk by showing how the determination of interest does not depend on the roundaboutness of capital.

    The Austrian Economists: 2007

  • Given the optimum amount of roundaboutness, we shall, of course, select the most efficient roundabout processes which we can find up to the required aggregate.

    The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money 2003

  • The roundaboutness of to-day is as nothing to that which existed under the old order of society.

    Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902

  • "Well," said Miriam, with a little laugh, which was not exactly the light effervescence of gaiety, "your people, if they love one another, say so outright, without any roundaboutness."

    Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers Mark Rutherford 1872

  • At last he said -- "You object, then, to all roundaboutness in such matters."

    Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers Mark Rutherford 1872

  • The roundaboutness of the entire production structure is lengthened.

    Mises Dailies 2009

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