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This was supplied, in the common periphrastic manner, by the help of the preposition and the article.
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When the present is found not to be distinctive enough, periphrastic forms come in.
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This tendency, together with periphrastic instead of verbal conjugation, continued to the end.
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In conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good.
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As poetry it does not measure up to Aasen; as translation it is periphrastic, arbitrary, not at all faithful.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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