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

He might be described as the last of the periphrastic humorists.

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert

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

In the provinces, where a periphrastic style is still cultivated, polemics are clothed in high-sounding phrases.

From The Fortune of the Rougons by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred