periphrastic

But it seems to this reader, Rebecca becoming Maud also speaks to the preoccupation of this entire book: the periphrastic construction of identity itself.

HANGZHOU, China — The students were lined up in rows, listening intently as their professor, Li Wei, explained the periphrastic future tense.

This is the only name known in Gaelic to the present hour for the month of August, except a periphrastic one meaning “the first month of autumn.”

Using these as auxiliaries the finite verb makes a whole series of periphrastic tenses.

They would have no unities, no arbitrary selection of subjects, no restraints on variety of versification, no academically limited vocabulary, no considerations of artificial beauty, and, above all, no periphrastic expression.