circumventingly

English

Etymology

From circumventing +‎ -ly.

Adverb

circumventingly (comparative more circumventingly, superlative most circumventingly)

1. (rare) So as to circumvent.
   • 1735, N[athan] Bailey, “UNDERMI´NINGLY”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: […], 7th edition, London: […] J. J. and P. Knapton, […], →OCLC, column 2:

     UNDERMI´NINGLY, circumventingly, […]

   • 1843 July 25, “The Devil turned Puritan—or the Clayites of Georgia declaring a Protective Tariff unconstitutional”, in The Macon Georgia Telegraph, volume XVII, number 43, Macon, Ga., page [2], column 6:

     […] whilst the ex-State Rights men, who compose the Clay division of the Whig Party, and wish to delude the people into the belief, that they, too, opposed the “mother of abominations,” and slyly, insidiously and circumventingly employed in promoting, consummating, and perpetually fixing her blasting and monopolizing curse upon the trading and agricultural interests of the South.

   • 1867, Charles Godfrey Leland, “Letter Twelfth”, in The Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, or, Three Thousand Miles in a Railway Car, Philadelphia, Pa.: Ringwalt & Brown, Steam-Power Book and Job Printers, […], page 57:

     The Tribune, young Gideon and Saint Lewis ride circumventingly by and cautiously around to the right, while I sagaciously conclude to stick to Howell, as doth the “Y-and-dot.”

   • 1878 July 5, “Newcastle Incorporated Companies. The Paviors.”, in Newcastle Courant. […], number 10,619, page 6, column 5:

     Here is another order for protecting the interests of the company:—“If any of the brotherhood have agreed for work, and another brother circumventingly go and offer to take the said work cheaper than the former have agreed for, whether he doth get the said work or not” he shall pay £5.

   • 1923, Kathleen Coyle, Piccadilly: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton and Company, page 93:

     She stood, for the merest fraction of time, on her toes, before she moved towards him circumventingly.

   • 1956 January 23, George E[phraim] Sokolsky, “These Days: A Treatise On Decent Language, Em Cees, A Plain-Talking Governor And Privacy”, in Tallahassee Democrat, volume XLII, number 23, Tallahassee, Fla., page 6, column 3:

     Naturally, I have not been everywhere and do not know how universal the cult of vulgarity is, but I have noted that authors possess a paucity of felicity in circumventingly ugly language in very popular books.

   • 1977, Meghalaya Legislative Assembly Debates, page 69:

     […] (6) that circumventingly the report given by the Officer was that the place was not in Mynso proper, whereas the suspension order was enforced throughout the jurisdiction of the Doloi of Mynso that is, throughout the Mynso Doloiship.

   • 1978 September 10, “[Editorial opinion] Outlawing war”, in Kokomo Tribune, volume 128, number 7, Kokomo, Ind., page 4, column 3:

     And the ignominy that is a basic ingredient in aggression still influences would-be predators in hesitating to make an overt attack on a country they covet. They do it circumventingly, as the Soviets are doing through their Cuban mercenaries in Africa, but they don’t like to bear the accusation of fomenting war.

   • 2002, Raymond G. Chase, “[Greece and the Greek Islands] Ramnous”, in Ancient Hellenistic and Roman Amphitheatres, Stadiums, and Theatres: The Way They Look Now, Portsmouth, N.H.: Peter E. Randall Publisher, →ISBN, page 540, column 1:

     We were so angry (tears to no avail) that we lost self-control and thought to try to circumventingly sneak in—only to be embarrassingly whistle-blown at the first upward clutch of the somewhat bush-camouflaged fence.