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

Worthy sir," said Tomkins, in a much less periphrastic style, "I will obey your worship as far as the spirit will permit.

From Woodstock; or, the Cavalier by Scott, Walter, Sir

In addition to the above inflected forms, there are many periphrastic or compound forms, made up of auxiliaries with the infinitives and participles.

From An English Grammar by Sewell, James Witt

In conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good.

From The Coming Race by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron