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
As a substitute for other inflections we prefix auxiliary verbs, and make what are called compound, or periphrastic, forms.
From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Brainerd Kellogg
By a periphrastic version of the general text.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
The R. periphrastic tenses are made on the same principles.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
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