| Definitions | | periphrastic |
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adjective
- expressed in more word, words than are necessary
- 1916 Martin Brown Ruudhttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/16416/16416-8.txt :
- :As poetry it does not measure up to Aasen; as translation it is , arbitrary, not at all faithful.
- (grammar) characterized by periphrase or circumlocution.
- : "The daughter of the man" may be used as a synonym for "the man's daughter"
- indirect in naming an entity; circumlocutory
- 1870 Edward Bulwer-Lytton, in Vril: The Power of the Coming Racehttp://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bulwer/1871/coming-race.htm :
- :In writing, they deem it irreverent to express the Supreme Being ... and in conversation they generally use a epithet, such as the All-Good.
Etymology: From the periphrasis. Cf. périphrastique.
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