periphrasis
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Prince Bumpo, the heir to the throne, is a mooncalf who mistakes fairy tales for real life, speaks in Elizabethan periphrasis and murmurs to himself: “If only I were a white prince!”
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2020
Oddly, they all speak the same puckish periphrasis.
From Time Magazine Archive
This periphrasis so fascinated Charles W. Morton, now the associate editor of the Atlantic, that he began collecting examples of "Elongated Yellow Fruit" writing.
From Time Magazine Archive
"To make Baldassare laugh" became a stock periphrasis for the supreme degree of tragedy among his neighbours.
From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
In all inquiries the writer has found it necessary to use periphrasis or to appeal to some illustration.
From Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula by Nathaniel Bright Emerson
These sagas are not to be so forgotten or disproved as to take away from poetry old periphrases which great skalds have been pleased with.
From The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Rasmus Björn Anderson
Thus has this great and magnificent virtue no name, and as science is powerless in creating words suitable for every-day language, it must rest satisfied with periphrases.
From Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Paul Janet
But these names have fared like other periphrases.
From The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Rasmus Björn Anderson
By reading the English, French, and German columns downwards, the reader will see how many different roots and periphrases these languages employ in order to express the same ideas.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark
In literature such “barbarisms” were avoided as far as possible, and were replaced by Greek periphrases.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
Vocabulary lists containing periphrasis
Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - High School
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