indirection

plural indirections

1. countableuncountableAn indirect action or process.
2. countableuncountableA lack of direction; deviousness or aimlessness.

   In your case, I fear, confession is exploitation by indirection, profit-making by ruse, self-aggrandizement at the expense of God.

   1907 September, Jack London, “A Day’s Lodging”, in Love of Life and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published December 1907, →OCLC, page 64

3. countableuncountablecomputingUse of a variable or object through its address.