paraphraser

The paraphraser is now forced to appeal to a public intellectually lower than that he formerly addressed.

Mrs. Wister is an excellent example of what might more correctly be called a “paraphraser” than a “translator.”

Madame Tastu was also a translator, or rather a paraphraser, and an author of original poems of a sentimental kind.

Emerson assumes that the reader is alert and knowing; the paraphraser, that he is a little inattentive and a little dull.