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Periphrase

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Per´i`phrase
n.1.(Rhet.) The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.
v. t.1.To express by periphrase or circumlocution.
[imp. & p. p. Periphrased ; p. pr. & vb. n. Periphrasing.]
v. i.1.To use circumlocution.


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In these matters a periphrase was demanded by the decorum of life, but, as he asked another question instead, it flashed through him that the doctor must be accustomed to the impatience of a sick man's relatives.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
The sun, which Dubartas, that classic ancestor of periphrase, had not yet dubbed the "Grand-duke of Candles," was none the less radiant and joyous on that account.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
All these things might be alleged against Lydgate, but then, they are the periphrases of a polite preacher, who talks of Adam, and would not like to mention anything painful to the pew-renters.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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