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Meanings of periphrasis in English
Catalan
perífrasi Spanish
perífrasis Synonyms
Examples for "circumlocution"
Examples for "circumlocution"
1
Pope dislikes a simple term and loves a circumlocution and an abstraction.
2
He defined the nature and crime of treason with elaboration and circumlocution.
3
The first is that it uses circumlocution rather than short straight speech.
4
So without circumlocution she went and offered to take the sinking child.
5
All your circumlocution and your fine words are simply an additional insult.
1
The doctor still answered per ambages, ut mos oraculis.
2
There should be ambages in such a matter.
3
And the ambages should take time.
4
It is true, in doing this, I may perhaps be obliged to use some AMBAGES, and ways of speech not common.
5
No "longæ ambages" for him.
Usage of periphrasis in English
1
Why does the Evangelist not say, without that periphrasis, 'healed the sick'?
2
The provincial word emparamarse can be translated only by a very long periphrasis.
3
He had a cunning mastery of periphrasis, and a telling command of adverbs.
4
He often expresses the commonest thoughts in a studied periphrasis.
5
This they contrived by the ready expedient of the periphrasis.
6
Mr. Hardie did not at first see the exact purport of this oleaginous periphrasis.
7
By this periphrasis Waverley readily apprehended his portmanteau was intended.
8
A new dawn is expressed by an astounding periphrasis (iv.
9
Modest periphrasis for "I like it." Motto for this Diary; "Ego, et Deus meus."
10
I should set forth simply, and without periphrasis, our grievances and our resolution to have justice.
11
Here no periphrasis would do the business.
12
Avyaktamuktakesa is a periphrasis for jiva; avyaktam aspashtam yathasyattatha muktah bhanti tirohitam nitya-muktatwama sya is the explanation offered.
13
He loved periphrasis, the good Porges.
14
He seemed to get much joy of this mouth-filling periphrasis as sneeringly he spoke of their common master.
15
His feelings of integrity would not have been alarmed by a periphrasis, but this plain speaking shocked him.
16
The table servant, seeing what the King was about, says to him, (mark the respectful periphrasis!)
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Periphrasis through the time