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

Though the story cannot pretend to support the cause of morality, the style of this piece is unusually clear and straightforward, sometimes suitably periphrastic, but never inflated.

From The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood by Whicher, George Frisbie

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 Russell, T. O.

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