periphrase
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈpɛɹiː.fɹeɪz/
periphrase
- (rhetoric) The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.
- To describe by enigmatic periphrases.
- 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume III, Book III, Chapter VI, page 56
- He held up the condition of the Church in the terrible mirror of his unflinching speech, which called things by their right names and dealt in no polite periphrases […]
periphrase (periphrases, present participle periphrasing; past and past participle periphrased)
- (transitive) To express by periphrase or circumlocution.
- (intransitive) To use circumlocution.
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