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

Thus Caedmon, in speaking of the ark, calls it the sea-house, the palace of the ocean, the wooden fortress, and by many other periphrastic names.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry

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.

Worthy sir," said Tomkins, in a much less periphrastic style, "I will obey your worship as far as the spirit will permit.

From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Scott, Walter, Sir