[f. CIRCUITOUS + -NESS.] Circuitous quality, manner, or way.
1805. Med. Repository, 2nd Hexade, II. 424. All who wish to spare themselves the drudgery, the circuitousness, and the waste of time which attend the acquisition of languages in the modes commonly practised.
1822. New Monthly Mag., VI. 74. Tortuous twistings and coy circuitousnesses so trying to the patience of the traveller.
1869. Goulburn, Purs. Holiness, v. 41. The exercises which go most directly, and with least circuitousness to the great end.
1884. J. Hatton, in Harper’s Mag., Feb., 344/2. The Kennet joins its waters to the river which winds in pleasant circuitousness to Sonning.
