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periphrastic
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This was supplied, in the common periphrastic manner, by the help of the preposition and the article.
When the present is found not to be distinctive enough, periphrastic forms come in.
This tendency, together with periphrastic instead of verbal conjugation, continued to the end.
In conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good.
As poetry it does not measure up to Aasen; as translation it is periphrastic, arbitrary, not at all faithful.
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On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to periphrastic, such as: bombastic, chatty, diffuse, discursive, flatulent, and gabby.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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