periphrastic

periphrastic

1. perifrastinen

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periphrastic

epäsuora, kiertelevä, monisanainen, perifrastinen.

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periphrastic englanniksi

1. Expressed in more words than are necessary.

2. 1916, w:Martin Brown Ruud|Martin Brown Ruud, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16416/16416-8.txt An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway

As poetry it does not measure up to Aasen; as translation it is periphrastic, arbitrary, not at all faithful.

3. 1940, w:T. S. Eliot|T. S. Eliot, w:East Coker (poem)|East Coker:

"That was a way of putting it—not very satisfactory/ A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle / With words and meanings."

4. Indirect in naming an entity; circumlocutory.

5. 1870, w:Edward Bulwer-Lytton|Edward Bulwer-Lytton, http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bulwer/1871/coming-race.htm Vril: The Power of the Coming Race

In writing, they deem it irreverent to express the Supreme Being … and in conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good.

6. puhekieltä Characterized by periphrasis.

“The daughter of the man” may be used as a periphrastic synonym for “the man’s daughter”.

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