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Webster Dictionary :: Periphrase

PER'IPHRASE, n. s as z. [Gr. about, and to speak.] Circumlocution; a circuit of words; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a figure of rhetoric employed to avoid a common and trite manner of expression. PER'IPHRASE , v.t. To express by circumlocution. PER'IPHRASE , v.i. ...

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PER'IPHRASE, n. s as z. [Gr. about, and to speak.] Circumlocution; a circuit of words; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a figure of rhetoric employed to avoid a common and trite manner of expression.

PER'IPHRASE, v.t. To express by circumlocution.

PER'IPHRASE, v.i. To use circumlocution.

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