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
No single individual could deliberately have set to work in order to abolish the old Latin genitive, and to replace it by the periphrastic compound de illo.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
Using these as auxiliaries the finite verb makes a whole series of periphrastic tenses.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
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
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