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
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 Wentworth Webster
By a periphrastic version of the general text.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
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 Henry Coppee
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