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phraseology Noun pl -gies the manner in which words or phrases are used phraseology 1. an idiom or the idiomatic aspect of a language. See also: Language2. a mode of expression. 3. Obsolete, a phrasebook. — phraseologist, n. — phraseologic, phraseological, adj. Phraseology a collection or handbook of the phrases or idioms of a language, 1558. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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Though at the time I but ill comprehended not a few of his words, yet subsequent disclosures, when I had become more familiar with his broken phraseology, now enable me to present the whole story such as it may prove in the mere skeleton I give. Nay, I am not angry, my beloved; I am only vexed to think that I should have written to you in such stupid, flowery phraseology. Almost every devout admirer of the old bards, if demanded his opinion of their productions, would mention vaguely, yet with perfect sincerity, a sense of dreamy, wild, indefinite, and he would perhaps say, indefinable delight; on being required to point out the source of this so shadowy pleasure, he would be apt to speak of the quaint in phraseology and in general handling. |
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