See circumlocution in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1997, Hansjörg Bittner, The Metrical Structure of Free Verse (PhD Thesis), retrieved 2021-04-21:",
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"text": "Linguistic horror vacui again, and lacuna: the blank part of a manuscript where the ink runs off the papyrus, and lexically the word missing from one language that must be bridged with circumlocution in translation.",
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"text": "Circumlocution is a large deſcription either to ſette forth a thyng more gorgiouſlie, or els to hyde it, if the eares cannot beare the open ſpeakyng: or when with fewe woordes we cannot open our meanyng, to ſpeake it more largely.",
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"ref": "1618, John Rushworth, Historical Collections of Private Passages of State.; Weight Matters in Law.; Remarkable Proceedings in Five Parliaments […] , London: Robert Boulter, page 238:",
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