circum

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Whats interesting is that we had plenty of evidence in these same circum stances as to what would work and what would not.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2015

In its romantic purity, this is a love that is outside time and circum stance, beyond good and evil.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nam sine vi non ulla dabit praecepta, neque illum orando flectes: vim duram et vincula capto 85 tende; doli circum haec demum frangentur inanes.

From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Bushnell, Curtis C.

As circum means round about, so circumspect means, of course, cautious, careful.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

Periptere, from περὶ circum, and πτὲρον ala, which has a Wing round about.

From An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius Containing a System of the Whole Works of that Author by Perrault, Claude