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

No single individual could deliberately have set to work in order to abolish the old Latin genitive, and to replace it by the periphrastic compound de illo.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

The language employed was so periphrastic and pointless that the Colonel was at a loss to get at the meaning intended to be conveyed.

From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by Dent, John Charles

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