Meanings of periphrasis in English

Why does the Evangelist not say, without that periphrasis, 'healed the sick'?

The provincial word emparamarse can be translated only by a very long periphrasis.

He had a cunning mastery of periphrasis, and a telling command of adverbs.

He often expresses the commonest thoughts in a studied periphrasis.

This they contrived by the ready expedient of the periphrasis.

Mr. Hardie did not at first see the exact purport of this oleaginous periphrasis.

By this periphrasis Waverley readily apprehended his portmanteau was intended.

A new dawn is expressed by an astounding periphrasis (iv.

Modest periphrasis for "I like it." Motto for this Diary; "Ego, et Deus meus."

I should set forth simply, and without periphrasis, our grievances and our resolution to have justice.

Here no periphrasis would do the business.

Avyaktamuktakesa is a periphrasis for jiva; avyaktam aspashtam yathasyattatha muktah bhanti tirohitam nitya-muktatwama sya is the explanation offered.

He loved periphrasis, the good Porges.

He seemed to get much joy of this mouth-filling periphrasis as sneeringly he spoke of their common master.

His feelings of integrity would not have been alarmed by a periphrasis, but this plain speaking shocked him.

The table servant, seeing what the King was about, says to him, (mark the respectful periphrasis!)