periphrase
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In writing of his version of the Odyssey to Ellis, Morris said: ‘My translation is a real one so far, not a mere periphrase of the original as all the others are.’
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
Yes; it was the usual periphrase of these vulgar people.
From Charlotte's Inheritance by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
The mot propre, the calling of a spade a spade, was the great commandment of Romanticism; but it must be allowed that what was taken away in periphrase was made up in adjectives.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
So far as consistent with due precision, popular terms have been used in description, but not when such usage involved tedious periphrase.
From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Lorin Low Dame
Yet it is difficult to conceive why Sallust should have used such a periphrase for centuriones.
From Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War by John Selby Watson
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