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

They would have no unities, no arbitrary selection of subjects, no restraints on variety of versification, no academically limited vocabulary, no considerations of artificial beauty, and, above all, no periphrastic expression.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

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 Kellogg, Brainerd

By a periphrastic version of the general text.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James