periphrastic

Example Sentences

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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

Worthy sir," said Tomkins, in a much less periphrastic style, "I will obey your worship as far as the spirit will permit.

From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Scott, Walter, Sir

As poetry it does not measure up to Aasen; as translation it is periphrastic, arbitrary, not at all faithful.

From An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway by Ruud, Martin Brown

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