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
In the provinces, where a periphrastic style is still cultivated, polemics are clothed in high-sounding phrases.
From The Fortune of the Rougons by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
This was supplied, in the common periphrastic manner, by the help of the preposition and the article.
From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Thomas Embly Osmun
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 John Charles Dent
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