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Wile vs Circumvention - What's the difference?

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Wile is a related term of circumvention.


As nouns the difference between wile and circumvention

is that wile is wila, black tree lichen (edible lichen) while circumvention is the act of evading by going around (bypassing).

wile

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (usually, in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice
    • He was seduced by her wiles .
  • * Milton
    • to frustrate all our plots and wiles

    Synonyms

    * beguilement * allurement

    Related terms

    * guile * wily

    Verb

    (wil)
  • To entice or lure
  • , "to pass the time".
    • Here's a pleasant way to wile away the hours.

    Usage notes

    The phrase meaning to pass time idly is while away''. We can trace the meaning in an adjectival sense for while back to Old English, hw?len — ''passing, transitory''. We also see it in the whilend — ''temporary, transitory''. But since ''wile away occurs so often, it is now included in many dictionaries.

    References

    * Grammarist.com While away or wile away? * Common Errors in the English Language Wile Away, While Away ----

    circumvention

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of evading by going around (bypassing).
  • The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.
    • A school in which he learns sly circumvention . --.