periphrastic

Example Sentences

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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

Ezekiel, a thorough Jerusalemite, finds a moral way of putting this departure from the law, a way of putting it which does not explain the fact, but is merely a periphrastic statement of it.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius

The auxiliaries of the periphrastic conjugation are almost the only verbs that have been preserved belonging to the simple primitive system.

From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Webster, Wentworth

As poetry it does not measure up to Aasen; as translation it is periphrastic, arbitrary, not at all faithful.

From An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway by Ruud, Martin Brown