Hypertext Webster Gateway: "circumvention"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Circumvention \Cir`cum*ven"tion\, n. [L. circumventio.]
The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or
fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.

A school in which he learns sly circumvention.
--Cowper.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

circumvention
n : the act of evading by going around


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