periphrastic
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But it seems to this reader, Rebecca becoming Maud also speaks to the preoccupation of this entire book: the periphrastic construction of identity itself.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
He misrepresents, distorts, bisects sentences and employs periphrastic phrases to make his points.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus Caedmon, in speaking of the ark, calls it the sea-house, the palace of the ocean, the wooden fortress, and by many other periphrastic names.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee
Blackburied: The meaning of this is not very clear, but it is probably a periphrastic and picturesque way of indicating damnation.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
In certain ceremonies seven quids are invariably set out by him, always accompanied by an invocation, the strain of which is usually very monotonous and always couched in long periphrastic preambles.
From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by John M. Garvan
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