A style that involves indirect ways of expressing things.
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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