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

Blackburied: The meaning of this is not very clear, but it is probably a periphrastic and picturesque way of indicating damnation.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

Something is due to the proprieties, and to accuse a man of deviations from candour and truth is of course merely a slightly periphrastic method of charging him with falsehood.

From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by Dent, John Charles