circumscription

Examples

• All

• Carneiro's circumscription theory reveals a clear indebtedness to the work of Herbert Spencer.

  Academic text (1999)

• Due to the circumscription of resources, the team could only focus on the most critical tasks.

• The measure of local political fission was also used as an assessment of a lack of environmental circumscription.

  Academic text (1998)

• And this circumscription of liberty is, in fact, a consolidation of it.

  Academic text (1998)

• Finally, Carneiro argues that population pressure and social circumscription can also explain how warfare leads to the creation of states.

  Academic text (1999)

• In addition, it is important to note that the earlier-mentioned significance of environmental circumscription should be considered in conjunction with the element of social circumscription.

  Academic text (1999)

• First, with regard to environmental circumscription, the Zulu Kingdom, once it had expanded over a wide territory, was indeed confined by environmental borders.

  Academic text (1999)

• Gottfredson's (2005) theory of career compromise and circumscription framed our understanding of the development of occupational aspirations.

  Academic text (2012)

• The significant correlations of human sacrifice with population pressure and environmental circumscription assessments (warfare for land and resources) support the ecological hypothesis.

  Academic text (1998)

• One cause of Aztec cannibalism postulated by Harner is environmental circumscription.

  Academic text (1998)

Synonyms

D

delimitation

vscircumscription

• Formal

1 8.0

A line or limit that shows where one area ends and another begins

emphasizes restricting and limiting the area rather than neutral boundary setting

Antonyms

E

expansion

241 3.3

An increase in size, amount, or range

How Restricted

confinement

80 5.9

circumscription

9.5

restriction

340 3.0

limitation

167 3.3

freedom

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology