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

In the provinces, where a periphrastic style is still cultivated, polemics are clothed in high-sounding phrases.

From The Fortune of the Rougons by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

Conjugation, 11; 93 f.; —— the four conjugations, 98; —— periphrastic, 115; —— peculiarities of conj.,

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

Manx exhibits the same tendency as Scottish to use analytical and periphrastic forms in the verb, thus jannoo, “to do,” is used like Scottish deanamh with an infinitive to express the past and future.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various