periphrase

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So far as consistent with due precision, popular terms have been used in description, but not when such usage involved tedious periphrase.

From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Dame, Lorin Low

Yes; it was the usual periphrase of these vulgar people.

From Charlotte's Inheritance by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

In writing of his version of the Odyssey to Ellis, Morris said: ‘My translation is a real one so far, not a mere periphrase of the original as all the others are.’

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Tinker, Chauncey Brewster

Then, mindful of the presence of the children, she proceeded by means of graceful periphrase and carefully studied generalizations to a presentation of Medora's mental and spiritual attributes.

From Under the Skylights by Fuller, Henry Blake

The mot propre, the calling of a spade a spade, was the great commandment of Romanticism; but it must be allowed that what was taken away in periphrase was made up in adjectives.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various