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
Coptic presents a remarkable contrast to Egyptian in the precision of its periphrastic conjugation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
This is the only name known in Gaelic to the present hour for the month of August, except a periphrastic one meaning “the first month of autumn.”
From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by T. O. Russell
He might be described as the last of the periphrastic humorists.
From Old and New Masters by Robert Lynd
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