metaphrase

Example Sentences

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His general theory may be stated as an aim at something between the literalness of metaphrase and the looseness of paraphase.

From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell

The way I have taken is not so strait as metaphrase, nor so loose as paraphrase; some things, too, I have omitted, and sometimes have added of my own.

From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by Dryden, John

Hear Dryden prosing away upon paraphrase, and metaphrase, and imitation, in his very best style.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

All translation, I suppose, may be reduced to these three heads—First, that of metaphrase, or turning an author, word by word, and line by line, from one language into another.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

"Translation, therefore," says Dryden, "is not so loose as paraphrase, nor so close as metaphrase."

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel