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periphrasis::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | ambage, circumlocution |
| Type of | verboseness, verbosity |
| Derivation | periphrastic |
Examples of periphrasis
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Other languages employ periphrasis, with idiomatic expressions or auxiliary verbs.
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Periphrasis is a characteristic of analytic languages, which tend to avoid inflection.
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Oddly, they all speak the same puckish periphrasis.
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Modal periphrasis of duty or hypotetical.
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Using a periphrasis showing an eventuality.
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Its use is either as a canonical adjective, or as a part of a second, alternative perfect periphrasis with transitive verbs.
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Even synthetic languages, which are highly inflected, sometimes make use of periphrasis to fill out an inflectional paradigm that is missing certain forms.
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The perceived glamour of, as Marina O'Loughlin puts it so well, fayn dayning, means every embryonic Gordon feels the need to season their food with hyperbole and periphrasis.
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Paraphrase, sometimes called periphrasis, is a translation procedure whereby the translator replaces a word in the source text by a group of words or an expression in the target text.
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- Circumlocution: a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
- In linguistics, periphrasis is a device by which grammatical meaning is expressed by one or more free morphemes (typically one or more function words accompanying a content word), instead of by inflectional affixes or derivation. Periphrastic forms are analytic, whereas the absence of periphrasis is a characteristic of synthesis...
- Circumlocution (also called periphrasis, circumduction, circumvolution, periphrase, or ambage) is an ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech. ...
- The use of a longer expression instead of a shorter one with a similar meaning, for example "I am going to" instead of "I will"; The substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name (a species of circumlocution); The use of a proper name as a shorthand to stand for qualities ...
- Roundabout wording. "The person to whom I am married," instead of "my spouse." See also: circumlocution.
- Using a wordy phrase to describe something for which one term exists.
- The substitution of many or several words where one would suffice; usually to avoid using that particular word.
- A roundabout way of writing or speaking, such as by use of the term periphrasis.
- The expression of grammatical operations by means of auxiliaries, idiomatic phrases, particles, word order, etc. (an analytic strategy) instead of using direct inflection. ...
